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BEACH 

IN AMERICA 


Containing general information re&ardin& 
the three brothers 

RICHARD BEACH 
TOHN BEACH and 
THOMAS BEACH 

Planters in the original settlements of New 
Haven Colony, Wallingford Colony 
and Milford Colony, Connec¬ 
ticut 1638 to 1641 

AND 

Genealogical Record on a portion of the 
descendants of Richard Beach, together 
with notes on Pioneer Beaches of 
Michigan, and an index of all 
known male descendants 

OF 

PLANTER PvICHARD BEACH 

Signer of the Fundamental Compact of 
New Haven Colony, 1639. 















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ELMER TAYLOR BEACH 






























































































































Copyrighted 1923 
ELMER T. BEACH 
634 Trimble Avc. 
Kalamazoo, Mich. 


Printing and Binding by 
I TILING BROS. EVERARD CO. 

4 

Kalamazoo, Mich. 


Kalamazoo, Mich., Sept. 25, 1923 


TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: 

This little book has been written primarily 
for the benefit of my immediate relatives, from 
available data and records but without exten¬ 
sive personal research on my part. While I 
have included only what appears to be au¬ 
thentic, and while every means has been em¬ 
ployed to avoid errors, there undoubtedly remain 
many incomplete or inaccurate statements, 
due to human frailty. Nevertheless, the main 
facts will be found entirely dependable I am 
sure, and the book is offered without apology 
as a much needed partial compilation of the 
family history of one of the primitive pioneer 
families of America that now numbers its liv¬ 
ing members literally by thousands, located in 
every corner of our wide land, and whose blood 
permeates in some degree a very large percent¬ 
age of all native Americans by reason of some 
of the countless ramifications of descent ex¬ 
tending as it does over a period of eleven gener¬ 
ations of life in America. 

I desire to acknowledge with thanks and 
appreciation the material help and assistance 
rendered me by Mr. A. M. Todd, Kalamazoo, 
Michigan, himself a descendant of the colonist 
Christopher Todd of New Haven Colony, who in 
1G47 sat among the congregation of the First 
Congregational Church organized in New Haven, 
four seats ahead of the seat occupied by our an¬ 
cestor Richard Beach. Through access to Mr. 
Todd’s library, containing old volumes on early 
Colonial matters, I had many dark places made 
plain. I also desire to acknowledge with thanks 


the very great assistance rendered in these 
matters by 

Mrs. Judge Howard D. Moss, Cheshire, Conn., with¬ 
out whose aid this book would have been impossible. 

Miss Helen Beach, Geneva, Switzerland. 

Hubert Cleveland Beach, Lee, Mass. 

Hervey Beach, Milford, Conn. 

Edward S. Beach, Ridgefield, Conn. 

Mrs. S. B. K. Doolittle, Northfield, Mass. 

Leslie W. Beach, Richmond, Ind. 

W. G. Black, Mandan, N. D. 

Mrs. Anna Gilbert, Hebron, Conn. 

Maj. Gen. Lansing H. Beach, Washington, D. C. 

Edward J. Beach, Dubuque, Iowa, and 

Captain Edward L. Beach, Palo Alto, Calif. 

besides many others not mentioned to whom I 
am indebted for assistance. 

With kindest regards, and assurance of my 
readiness to assist where I can other members 
of our family in unravelling the mysteries of 
by-gone years, I am 

Sincerely, 

ELMER TAYLOR BEACH. 


By Way of Appreciation 


I desire in this manner to express my sincere 
thanks and appreciation to 

MARY BEACH MOSS 
Wife of Judge Howard I). Moss, 
Cheshire, Connecticut, 

Daughter of Joseph Perkins Beach, born July 17, 
1828: fourth son of Moses Yale Beach, born Jan. 
15, 1800: oldest son of Moses Sperry Beach, born 
March 7, 177G: only son of Moses Beach, born 
Nov. S, 1726: third son of Moses Beach, born 
Feb. 19, 1695: third son of Thomas Beach, born 
May 1659: second son of John Beach, Planter, of 
New Haven Colony, Wallingford and Stratford, 
Connecticut, for the help and assistance render¬ 
ed me in the delineation of our family history. 

The first two generations are given exactly as 
furnished me by Mrs. Moss from the manuscripts 
of her father. She also furnished me substantial 
aid on the next three generations from stray and 
disconnected records found among her father’s 
papers and it was from these same manuscripts 
that I first learned of the town of residence and 
death of my great grandfather, Apollos Beach, 
which placed me in % connection with important 
sources of information. 

Without this assistance it would have been 
very uphill work to come into possession of the 
information I have gathered concerning our early 
families in America. 

Signed, 

ELMER TAYLOR BEACH, 

634 Trimble Avenue, 
Kalamazoo, Michigan. 






CONTENTS 


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Beach Coat of Arms. 8 

Chapter I. Beach Blood Lines . 10 

Chapter II. A Family of Pioneers. 13 

Chapter III. Colonial Records. 21 

Chapter IV. Our Branch. 27 

Chapter V. Brothers of Richard, Planter... 41 

Chapter VI. Our Families . 47 

Chapter VII. Our Ancestral Tree.53 

Chapter VIII. Genealogical Records. 75 

Section I. Families of George Judson 
Beach . 75 

Section II. Families of Martha Jane 

Beach-Page-Noland .82 

Section III. Families of J. II. Beach.... 87 

Section IV. Families of Apollos Wright 
Beach . 93 

Section V. Families of Chloe Beach- 
Barnes .• •. 97 

Section VI. Families of David M. Beach 103 

Section VII. Families of Joseph S. 
Beach, Line of Joseph, 1782.100 

Section VIII. Families of James Beach. 

Line of Benjamin, 1082.112 

Section IX. Families of Elisha Beach, 

Jr., and John Beach, Line of Capt. 
Elisha Beach, 1739.119 

Section X. Families of David Hubbard 
Beach, Line of Thomas Beach .128 

Twenty-five Blank Pages for pen use, 
wholly blank . 

Chapter IX. A Guess or Two.133 

Index of Known Male Descendants of Rich¬ 
ard Beach, Planter .141 

Quotations from the Old New Haven col¬ 
ony Record .140 






















BEACH COAT OF ARMS 


Coats of arms and tlieir significance, so far 
as America is concerned at least, have long since 
passed into the discard of the ages, and it is only 
as a relic and a matter of curiosity that one of 
the ancient Coats of Arms of the Beach family 
has been here reproduced. Yet I am minded to 
consider for a few moments that old Coat of 
Arms and its heraldric significance. 

If our blood lineage is fairly stated in the 
pages which follow, that coat of arms is sup¬ 
posed to show forth to the world the attitude 
of the House of Beach in the 13th and 14th cen¬ 
turies when Knighthood was in flower toward 
the House of Duke William of Normandy, known 
in History as William the Conqueror. It may 
be some satisfaction to observe that this old 
Coat of Arms conveys no hint of War, or the 
Force of Arms or Superimposed Authority. The 
idea intended to be conveyed is not that of giv¬ 
ing assistance in or recognition of any such per¬ 
formance. 

The Charge upon a shield sets forth the 
central idea intended to be conveyed. In the 
science of Heraldry charges were classified into 
Ordinary and Lesser Ordinary. The gold Pile 
of our shield was then classified among Lesser 
Ordinary, and the accepted heraldric signifi¬ 
cance of the Pile on a coat of arms was that 
of SUPPORT derived from the well known use 
of wooden piles as a support for houses and 
foundations built on soft and unstable ground. 
A race of sea faring men from the coast of 
Norway, having then resided many generations 
in northern France and familiar with the rivers 
and coasts of England surely had had many 
occasions to observe the use of wooden piles in 
the construction and support of houses. And 
it does not take a wide stretch of imagination 
to conceive that the House of Duke William of 
Normandy in the days that followed his imposi- 


8 


COAT OF ARMS 



BEACH 


By courtesy of Mr. Harvey Beach, Milford, Conn., 
and Mr. Edw. S. Beach, Ridgefield, Conn. 


























tion of tlie Norman Dynasty upon the throne 
of England, was a house built on no very solid 
ground and in need of support since the native 
English peoples could hardly be regarded as 
furnishing any very substantial foundation for 
such a superstructure. And this appears to be 
the heraldric significance intended by its use 
in the Beach Coat of Arms. 

The House of Beach, therefore appears to 
have stood ready to support, and did support 
the reigning dynasty, but it appears to have 
sought to signify that such support was to be 
found rather in qualities of character and 
readiness than in mere force of arms. The in¬ 
scription “Tout en Bonne Heure,” which prob¬ 
ably meant in the old French of that time “All 
in good time,” or “Everything in its proper 
season,” seems to carry further the idea of 
quiet dignity and repose, and the metals and 
colors used readily lend themselves to this in¬ 
terpretation. For in the accepted heraldric 
meanings of metals and colors the AZURE 
(blue) of the Canton and the Escutcheon meant 
LOYALTY. The GULES (red) of the Vair 
meant COURAGE, the ARGENT (silver) of 
the Vair and the Crest meant PURITY. 

If I have correctly read the accepted signi¬ 
ficance of this coat of arms, possibly its herald¬ 
ric meaning may still stand for us as a Na¬ 
tional Political motto; even with shield and 
charge thrown into the scrap heap. 

Some of the old Rolls of Arms make record 
of still another Beach Coat of Arms. This was 
described as follows: Gules: Three lions pass¬ 
ant. Gold: Over all a bend charged with three 
stag’s heads caboosed. Crest: A bird rising. 

As for our American branch of the family no 
legal right to use either of these coats of arms 
is knowm ever to have existed. Indeed the evi¬ 
dence seems to indicate that our people belong¬ 
ed rather to the class of artisans and trades¬ 
men, at the time of coming to this country. 


9 


Beach in America 


Chapter I 

BEACH BLOOD LINES 

Merrie England is the homeland of our 
family. Beaches may be found in at least 
three counties of England today spelling 
their names as we spell ours, and showing 
very many of the same given names. Among 
these English “cousins” I might mention 
Col. William Henry Beach, C. B., C. M. G., 
D. S. 0., R. E., in 1923 on the Headquarters 
Staff of India; his brother Col. Thomas 
Boswell Beach, C. M. G., C. B. E., A. M. S., 
and their sister Elsie Sophia Beach, now 
residing with their mother at Ailsa House, 
181 Kings Road, Reading, England. These 
people are lineal descendants of that Noted 
Portrait Painter, Thomas Beach of Dorset, 
who was born in Milton Abbey, 1738, Bap¬ 
tized in Abbey Church, educated in the 
Grammar School, buried in All Saints 
Church Yard, Dorcester, 1806. No direct 
blood connection is known to exist between 
their families and ours. 


10 



Genealogists and investigators show 
that the Beach name is a corruption of 
the old Norman family name de la Beche. 
Sir Hicks-Beach of England having traced 
his family definitely back to these old fam¬ 
ilies. Of the early de la Beche families there 
were a Sir Roger de la Beche, a Sir Nicho¬ 
las de la Beche, a Sir Thomas de la Beche, a 
Sir John de la Beche, a Sir Robert de la 
Beche, and others. A principal seat of 
these old families was at Aldworth, County 
Berks, where in the old church at Nether 
Avon, tombs and effigies of a number of 
knights may be seen to this day. History 
indicates that these old families were prob¬ 
ably among those knights who accompanied 
William the Conqueror to England at the 
time of the conquest of England, about 
1066, and more than likely sprung origin¬ 
ally from Viking Norsemen stock, which at 
a very early day had overrun and taken pos¬ 
session of the rich valley of the Seine in 
what is now northern France. If indeed 
they be not actual descendants of that 
famed leader Rolf or Rollo (signifying 
The Red Wolf) of whom, and of Normandy 
the National Encyclopedia says, 

“In the time of the Romans the coun¬ 
try bore the name Gallia Lugdunensis 
II. Under the Frankish monarehs it 
formed a part of Neustria, and was first 
called Normandy after Charles the Sim¬ 
ple, in 912, had given it to Rolf or Rollo, 
the leader of a band of Norse Rovers, to 


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be held by him and his posterity as a 
fief of the French Crown. From Rolf 
(baptized into Christianity under the 
name of Robert) and Gisela, the daughter 
of Charles, sprung the latter Dukes of 
Normandy, of whom Richard I, grandson 
of Rolf, vigorously maintained his author¬ 
ity against his Liege Lord Louis IV and 
Lotharie. William II became the Duke 
of Normandy in 103G, and in 10GG establish¬ 
ed a Norman Dynasty on the Throne of 
England.” 

And in another place speaking of Rollo, 
and his descendants, the encyclopedia con¬ 
tinues : 

“From Norway also issued the last 
and most important expedition against 
the coast of France. It was led by Rolf 
or Rollo, who had been banished by Har- 
ald Haarfager on account of his piracies. 
Rolf forced Charles the Simple to grant 
him possession of all the land in the val¬ 
ley of the Seine, from Epte and Eure to 
the Sea. By the time of Charles the Bald, 
the invaders had firmly planted them¬ 
selves in the country, which then went 
by the name of Normandy. They and 
their descendants are strictly speaking 
the Normans of history—warlike, vigor¬ 
ous, and a most brilliant race. They 
rapidly adopted the more civilized form 
of life that prevailed in the Frankish 
kingdom—its religion, language and man¬ 
ners, but inspired everything they bor¬ 
rowed with their own splendid vitality.” 

It seems probable that from blood lines 
like these our ancestry is derived, and this 
ancestry and lineage may be the determin¬ 
ing cause which has made of our families 
in America one that always shows up on the 
firing line of modern civilization, at least 
in the physical sense. 


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Chapter II 


A FAMILY OF PIONEERS 

As one of the primitive pioneer families 
of America, Time has been kind to ns. 
From a small beginning, one may not now 
pick up the directory of any considerable 
city of America without finding men and 
women of our name and lineage. As will 
appear further on, even our little branch of 
these American families, imperfectly 
known as it is, extends into half the states 
of the Union. 

Connecticut is still a principal habitat 
of Beach families, but in these later years 
some of the younger states boast a great 
many more Beaches than old Connecticut. 
New York state is particularly well sup¬ 
plied, and Michigan has to a considerable 
extent become a home of the Beaches. This 
may be seen by an examination of the 
printed directories of the state, which 
shows: 


Kalamazoo, with . . 

. . .19 

Battle Creek . 

.21 


. . .16 

Flint . 

.17 

Grand Rapids . 

. . .11 

Van Buren County . . 

.11 

Ann Arbor . 

... 8 

Hillsdale . 

. 1 

Ludington . 

... 1 

Pontiac . 

.18 

Saginaw . 

. . .25 

Detroit . 

.92 

Muskegon . 

... 5 

Alpena . 

. 1 


. . 4 

Owosso . 

. 1 

Port Huron . 

... 8 

Sault Ste. Marie . 

. 2 


. . 3 

Adrian . 


Lansing . 

. . .11 

Petoskey . 

. 2 


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In all 280 Beaches in printed direc¬ 
tories, besides hundreds and hundreds of 
others in small villages and on farms 
throughout the state, most of them de¬ 
scendants of early pioneers who came over¬ 
land from New York and the east nearly a 
hundred years ago. Every published vol¬ 
ume of the printed records of the Michi¬ 
gan Pioneer Society since it was founded, 
some 38 in all, bristles with Beaches. I 
hope it may not seem out of place to make 
some rather extended reference to these old 
pioneer records. 

EARLY MICHIGAN BEACH 
PIONEERS 

GENESEE COUNTY—FLINT 

Of the many Beach pioneers of Michi¬ 
gan, probably no single family has exerted 
a wider or more lasting influence on our 
state than that of: 

JONATHAN BEACH, who accompanied as 
a very old man, several of his children to Mich¬ 
igan in 1836, settling with his son Luman Beach, 
in Genesee County, a few miles north of what 
is now Flint, where he died 90 years of age. 
Of him it is said he reared a family of eight 
in Greene County, New York; later removed 
with his entire family except the eldest son, 
Erastus, to Mount Morris, New York, where he 
was for many years a deacon of the Mount Mor¬ 
ris church, accompanying the family of his son 
Wait, and several other sons and their families 
to Michigan as stated, in 1836. Of his children 
it is stated: 

ERASTUS BEACH, eldest son, remained be¬ 
hind in Greene County, and in company with 




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others secured from the New York Legislature 
a charter to build a hotel, and pike in the Cats- 
kill Mountains, w T hic*h Hotel remained the 
property of and was managed by his son Charles 
L. Beach for more than 50 years. Yol. 21, pp. 
382-412. 

LUCY BEACH, only daughter who married 
her cousin John Beach, a merchant of Mount 
Morris, who failing as a merchant removed to 
Ohio and studied for the ministry, becoming a 
missionary preacher, later removing to Ann 
Arbor, Mich., and still later to Saginaw, Mich., 
where he died Sept. 8, 1852. Vol. 21, pp. 37G-- 
378. 

LUMAN BEACH, settled in Genesee Town¬ 
ship, Genesee County, as above. 

WAIT BEACH, son of whom it is said, he 
converted his property in Mount Morris, N. Y., 
into cash, $3,000 of which he sewed into three 
$1,000 packages in a belt worn next the skin. 
He then took passage on a boat sailing for Sagi¬ 
naw ; that while asleep on the deck his Belt 
became exposed, and some one with a sharp 
knife slit the belt and removed one of the 
packages which was never recovered. That he 
proceeded to his destination and purchased the 
John Todd Indian Trading post and 300 acres 
of land, the present site of Flint, Michigan, 
platting and filing the first plat of Flint village 
July 13, 183G. His family, with his aged father, 
and other brothers came out that same year, or 
early in 1837. 

ELISHA BEACH, son who with liis brother 
Seth settled what is now Pontiac, Michigan, not 
far from Detroit. Probably the same Elisha 
Beach who filed a plat extending boundaries of 
Flint, Sept. 22, 183G. Vol. 35, pp. 382. Also 
probably that Elisha Beach, who was aid de 
Camp of the Brigadier General in charge of 
Michigan and who signed brigade order on Sept. 
27, 1830, in the Black Hawk Indian War. 

SETH BEACH, brother of Elisha, settled 
what is now Pontiac. Probably the Seth C. 
Beach, who in company with A. T. Crossman of 
Oakland County ran a dry goods store in Flint 
in 1844. Yol. 21, pp. 390. And mentioned later 


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hs starting a hardware store at Corunna, and 
marrying Sabina V. Bowers, dying before his 
stock of hardware all arrived. 

HARLOW AND ASAHEL BEACH, sons who 
settled what is now Corunna, Shiawassee 
bounty, Michigan. Vol. 21, pp. 380. Vol. 13, 
pp. 411. Vol. 35, pp. 362. 

Other important pioneers were: 

CALHOUN AND BARRY COUNTIES, 
BATTLE CREEK 

DR. JOHN BEACH, of New York, brother 
of Dr. Asahel Beach of Battle Creek, settled 
about 1836 with his two sons, Morgan Beach 
and Darwin Beach, in the woods south of where 
Battle Creek now stands not far from the edge 
of Gogouac Prairie. Undoubtedly the same Dr. 
John H. Beach, named among early physicians 
as of Coldwater, Mich. Vol. 17, pp. 318. Vol. 5, 
pp. 279. Vol. 17, pp. 465. 

DR. ASAHEL BEACH, brother of Dr. John 
Beach, settled South Battle Creek about 1836, 
probably related to that Barry County pioneeer 
Asahel Beach, born 1833, died 1899, at Johns¬ 
town, Barry County, having resided in Johns¬ 
town 45 years. Vol. 29, pp. 415. Vol. 5, pp. 279. 

ARTEMUS H. BEACH, born 1803, died Aug. 
19, 1898, at Battle Creek. A few days before 
his death celebrated the 71st anniversary of his 
wedding. Vol. 29, pp. 29. 

J. PHELPS BEACH, born 1808, died Feb. 
28, 1892, in Battle Creek, Mich. Vol. 21, pp. 66. 

EMMIT L. BEACH, born 1816. Struck by 
M. C. train at E. Canal St., Battle Creek, Nov. 
11, 1893, died at the home of his sister, Mary B. 
Parker, 25 E. VanBuren St., Battle Creek, Nov. 
14, 1893, age 77, resided in Battle Creek fifty 
years. Vol. 26, pp. 49. 

CLADIUS H. BEACH, born June 19, 1815, 
Broomfield County, Ontario. Came to Michigan 
1844, a gunsmith, settled Marshall, Mich. Vol. 
21, pp. 75. 


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BRANCH COUNTY, TOWN QUINCY 

SAMUEL BEACH and 14 year old son, 
Janies William, settled what was known as 
Beache’s settlement, town of Quincy, Dec. 28, 
1835, when that locality could be reached only 
by wagon through dense forests and swamps. 
All of his relatives at that time except one 
brother described as “being east of the Hudson.” 
A few years later had nine in his family, one 
married son with six children, one man grown 
unmarried son, two daughters with families of 
four, in all twenty-eight persons in his house¬ 
hold. Vol. 18, pp. 359 to 372. 

SAGINAW COUNTY, SAGINAW 

HON. NOAH BEACH, from Niagara County 
New York, list of early Saginaw settlers, Vol. 28, 
pp. 487. Organized Bridgeport township, 1848. 
First supervisor. Senator from Saginaw Coun¬ 
ty, 1842. Children: 

CATHERINE BEACH (Shattuck) daughter, 
born March 23, 1816, Lewiston, Niagara County, 
N. Y. Vol. 7, pp. 283. 

HATTON BEACH, son, born Aug. 11, 1818, 
Niagara County, N. Y T ., died at his home in 
Bridgeport of kidney trouble. Came to Sagi¬ 
naw, 1837, removed to Springfield, near Pontiac, 
1838, returned and settled Bridgeport, 1841. 
Married August 11, 1845, Mary Bow, his sons, 
M. S. Beach, of Birch Run, Mich., Noah Beach, 
of Bridgeport, Mich., and Mrs. C. E. Foote, of 
Bridgeport. Was uncle of E. L. Beach. Vol. 26 
pp. 49. 

M. S. BEACH, son, of Bridgeport. 

MARY BEACH, daughter, of Bridgeport. 

ELSIE BEACH, daughter, of Bridgeport. 

COL. SAMUEL BEACH, of Pontiac, son. 
Veteran Mexican War. Vol. 7, pp. 119. Vol. 7, 
pp. 283. 

HORACE BEACH, born New York City, Jan. 
16, 1806, died in Titiwabassee Township, Sagi¬ 
naw County, 1881, married Catherine Walden. 


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Came to Michigan 1837. Early log school house 
schoolmaster. Vol. 28. 

JOSEPH BEACH, born Penfield, N. Y., died 
Oct. 18, 1890, at Saginaw, Mich. Came to Mich¬ 
igan age of nine. Left wife and two children. 
Vol. 18, pp. 285-8. 

SHIAWASSEE COUNTY, OWOSSO 

LUCIUS BEACH, married 1st, Mary House¬ 
holder at Rays Hill, Pa. She died, leaving daugh¬ 
ter, Irene Beach (Gould) later of Owosso. Short¬ 
ly after her death he removed to Connecticut. 
Here he married second, the young widow, Ab¬ 
ide (Kimball) Phillips, wife of Governor Phil¬ 
lips. They settled in Berkshire County, Mass., 
for a few years where daughter, Mary Ann 
(Martin) was born. Removed to Norwalk, Ohio, 
remaining only a few days, leaving wife and 
young family, proceeded (1837) to Michigan 
seeking home. Settled Shiawasseetown (Ow- 
wosso), then to be reached only by long 
wagon drive. Family came on in 1838. First 
school Shiawassee County taught by Abide 
Beach in her parlor. Later children John Beach 
and Mrs. Tillottson, of Owosso. Vol. 8, pp, 94. Vol. 
28, pp. 579. Vol. 30, pp. 380. Vol. 32, pp. 206. 
Vol. 36, pp. 313. 

LENAWEE COUNTY 

WILLIAM BEACH, born 1800, died 1880, 
resided town of Tecumseh. Vol. 11, pp. 95. 

MILES BEACH, born 1822, died 1888, re¬ 
sided in Hudson, Mich. Vol. 13, pp. 227. 

WASHTENAW COUNTY 

LIBERTY P. BEACH, born 1802, died Jan. 
20, 1888, residence for fifty-two years at Ypsi- 
lanti, Mich., and Medina. Vol. 13, pp. 280. 

JACKSON COUNTY 

WILLIAM A. BEACH, born New r York, died 
June 20, 1889, at Jackson, Mich. Vol. 17, pp. 
111 . 


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MACOMB COUNTY 


SAMUEL F. BEACH, list of attorneys, fifth 
on court record, by special act of legislature 
“admitted to plead and practice law in this ter¬ 
ritory,” March 8, 1822. Yol. 35, pp. 439-442. 

OAKLAND COUNTY 

MRS. REUBEN CASTLE BEACH, born Nov. 
9, 1804, Jefferson County, N. Y., died June 17, 
1890, at Troy, Oakland County. Settled Bir¬ 
mingham. Children, Danforth Beach, D. Porter 
Beach, Mrs. Henry Going, Pontiac, Mrs. H. H. 
Wilson, Waterford, Mrs. Hiram Chatfield, Bir¬ 
mingham, Mich. ^ 

MICHAEL BEACH—Purchased part of Sec. 
8, T. 2, R. 11, town of Troy, Dec. 7, 1819. Vol. 
22, pp. 422. 

MRS. CAROLINE M. BEACH, born March 
18, 1814, Richmond, Ontario County, N. Y., died 
July 25, 1890, Farmington, Oakland County, 
Michigan. First residence, 1824. Vol. 18, pp. 
277. 

RUFUS BEACH and WILLIAM BEACH, 
volunteers Black Hawk Indian War, Chas. C. 
Hoskins Company, Oakland County, signed July 
18, 1832. Yol. 36, pp. 250-325. 

EBEN C. BEACH, born Feb. 16, 1S22, at St. 
Clair, lived St. Clair, died Detroit, May 3, 1892. 

Besides these early pioneers connected 
with the Michigan Pioneer Society, there 
were many others. I will mention three: 

SPENCER BEACH, born 1816, came from 
New York, where his five older children were 
born, by wagon into central Van Buren County, 
where he settled in the woods. He had twelve 
children, mostly boys, some of whom had fami¬ 
lies of ten and twelve. Southwestern Michigan 
is peppered with living descendants, Mr. 
Charles Beach, Edwin Avenue, Kalamazoo, 
Michigan, being one of these. 


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ELNATHAN BEACH, a native of Madison 
County, N. Y., came overland in 1838, and set¬ 
tled Sec. 7, town of Marion, Livingston County, 
Michigan, on land located by his father, Lyman 
E. Beach, in 1830. Livingston County was then 
pretty much all timber. Mr. W. E. Beach, 
Howell, Michigan, is one of his many living de¬ 
scendants. 

JOHN S. BEACH, born N. Y., Feb. 20, 1809, 
came with his son, George W. Beach, early in 
1800 into Michigan and settled at Green Oak, 
Livingston County. That part of Michigan has 
many living relatives, of whom John T. Beach, 
Brighton, Mich., is one. Mr. George H. Beach, 
Falling Waters, Chatham, N. Y., is also a de¬ 
scendant of John S. Beach. 

Many more Beach pioneers might he 
named, but I refrain. 

The part Beach families have played in 
the development of Michigan and of Am¬ 
erica can never be adequately told. For 
the most part it is already lost in the ob¬ 
livion of time. Enough has been learned 
and recorded to show that men of our fam¬ 
ilies have always appeared in the very 
front rank of American civilization as it 
has crowded incessantly upon native sav¬ 
agery, and Beaches have camped upon the 
trail of the disappearing Indian from the 
days of New Haven Colony till now, when 
they may be found in very many communi¬ 
ties throughout California and the west. 
Rex Beach—a Battle Creek product, by the 
way—in going to Alaska was only exempli¬ 
fying one of the abiding inborn traits of 
his race—a. race of pioneers. 


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Chapter III 

COLONIAL RECORDS 

The family name, as we know it, is 
sometimes spelled Beech and sometimes 
Boech in the early colonial records, whether 
from illiteracy of town clerks, or pure lazi¬ 
ness in not taking the trouble to find out 
correct spelling, I do not know, but for the 
most part the spelling agrees with our fam¬ 
ily custom. 

Whoever would undertake looking into 
early colonial Beach history must remain 
constantly on his taps, or suffer the humilia¬ 
tion of confusing men of somewhat similar 
names, as may have been the case with 
that New England genealogist Savage, in 
the case of Richard Beach, of Watertown, 
Mass., and as most certainly is the case with 
Bond’s History of Watertown and some of 
the old genealogists who record that he 
came to Massachusetts to Watertown in 
1635 on a vessel commanded by Captain 
Roger Cooper; that he removed that same 
year to Cambridge, Mass,, and later to 
Wyam, and that he died in 1674. He is said 
to have married Mary in 1638. Children: 


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JOHN BEACH, born Aug. 6, 1639, in Water- 
town, Mass. 

MARY BEACH, born Dec. 11, 1G41, they say 
in New Haven, Conn. 

Mary died and he married second, Martha 
(described in parenthesis as the widow of An¬ 
drew Hull, evidently confusing this record with 
that of our ancestor Richard Beach, who did 
marry Catherine (Cook) Hull who was the 
widow of Andrew Hull of New Haven). Child¬ 
ren of Richard Beach and Martha, were: 

ISAAC BEACH, born July 5, 1646. 

MARTHA BEACH, born March, 10, 
1649, who married Joseph Whitney June, 1674, 
her brother Isaac having been appointed guard¬ 
ian to her son Benjamin Whitney Nov. 30, 1702. 

ABAGAIL BEACH, born June 4, 1653. 

JOSEPH BEACH, born Dec. 15, 1655. 

RICHARD BEACH, born Oct. 28, 1657. 

Richard Beach, father of this family is 
said to have removed to New Haven, Conn., 
in 1639, and to have died there. But this 
appears to be only a portion of the error 
and confusion into which these people ap¬ 
pear to have fallen on account of similar¬ 
ity of names and other confusing detail. 

For the records of this family were in¬ 
vestigated very carefully by Joseph P. 
Beach, of Cheshire, Conn., to whom I am 
mainly indebted for the records I have on 
the first five generations of our family in 
America, and Mr. Beach could find no evi¬ 
dence of the presence of Richard Beach of 
Watertown, and Cambridge, Mass*, in New 
Haven, Conn. Richard Beach of Water- 


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town may have been that Richard Beach 
whom Orcutt says in his old history of Tor- 
rington, Conn., removed to New London, 
Conn. But according to the findings of 
Joseph P. Beach, son John, died young; 
son Isaac of that family died unmarried at 
the age of 90; and sons Joseph and Richard 
were killed in early Indian wars. Joseph P. 
Beach, therefore, gave it as his opinion and 
conclusion that the descent of Richard 
Beach of Watertown, Mass., became extinct, 
as of this family he says: 

“In all my searches made for this Pilgrim 
family I learn of no descendants and conclude 
that with the death of Isaac in 1735-30 the 
family name became extinct.” 

It will be seen from the records of the 
two families, if both are without error, 
that Richard Beach of Watertown could by 
no stretch of imagination be Richard Beach 
of New Haven. And yet the two families 
may be in some manner connected. Indeed, 
I think they are. 

In this connection I might mention one 
curious incident. 

Some fifteen years ago, a Philip Durphy 
Beach, then residing at 133 Lafayette St., 
Bridgeport, Conn., furnished our kinsman 
Capt. E. L. Beach, with a fairly complete 
and accurate data on the early families of 
our descent. Philip Durphy Beach be¬ 
lieved himself to be a descendant of our 


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Richard Beach, of New Haven, by a 
straight line of Richards. But according 
to our verified available record, there was 
no Richard Beach, son of Richard of New 
Haven. The descent of Philip Durphy 
Beach as given by himself was as follows: 

BEACH—Richard, John, Thomas—Pilgrims. 
No record of date of landing. 

RICHARD—1st. Settled New Haven Col¬ 
ony, 1638-39, afterward to New Jersey. 

RICHARD—2nd. 1679. 

RICHARD—3rd. 1704. 

RICHARD—4th. 1737, a minister. Moved 
to Humphreysville (Seymour), Conn., 1790— 
Moved to Cornwall, Conn., and died there 1816. 
His children, S—6 sons and 2 daughters. 

Second son, GILES BEACH, born -Ian. 13, 
1765—married Mary Gale Dayton 1789—they 
had 11 children of whom: 

SHARON GALE BEACH, the youngest was 
horn May, 21, 1809. 

His son GEORGE WELLS BEACH, born 
Aug. 18, 1S33. 

His son, HENRY DAYTON BEACH, born 
Dec. 29, 1858. 

His son, PHILIP DURPHY BEACH, born 
Dec. 19, 1888. 

On examining the above data it will be 
seen there is much more than one usual gen¬ 
eration of those days between Richard Beach 
1st, who we know must have been born 
about 1618 or 1620, and Richard Beach 
2nd, born according to his record, 1679. It 
would be possible of course. 

On the other hand, refer back to the 
birth date of Richard Beach, son of Rich- 


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\ 

ard of Watertown, born in 1657, and yon 
have exactly the right relation for the first 
born of a generation of those days about 22 
years. I would sooner think that this 
Philip Durphy Beach is a descendant of 
Richard of Watertown by his son Richard, 
1657, who quite likely may have been mar¬ 
ried shortly before being killed in the In¬ 
dian wars. His son being very young or 
possibly not born till after his death would 
naturally grow up without any very dis¬ 
tinct information on his father, yet the 
legend of his descent by a straight line of 
Richards might persist, and this would be 
the exact truth if he is a descendant of 
Richard of Watertown. 

However that may be, I give all this 
merely to show that whoever undertakes to 
dig into Colonial Beach history must keep 
his wits about him and jump to no con¬ 
clusions. In the record of our families 
which follows, nothing is given but such 
records as have been fully verified, the 
first three generations and parts of the 4th 
and 5th, by Joseph P. Beach, and the third 
and later generations by myself. 


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Chapter IV 


OUR BRANCH 

My investigations thus far convince me 
that fully 85 per cent of all the Beaches in 
America today trace back to one or the 
other ramification of the families of three 
brothers, Richard, John and Thomas Beach, 
who as young unmarried men were among 
the first inhabitants of New Haven Colony 
from 1639 to 1650. They were original 
proprietors and grant owners in New Hav¬ 
en, Milford, Wallingford and Stratford 
colonies as were their children and grand¬ 
children in Wallingford, Stratford, Kil- 
lingworth, Hebron, Goshen, North Haven, 
Cheshire, Newton, Torrington, Litchfield, 
Fairfield, Trumbull and many, many other 
original settlements of Connecticut and near¬ 
by states. At the same time I find some few 
like Albert J. Beach, a civil engineer of No. 
19 Burnham St., W. Somerville, Boston, 
Mass., whose ancestors are German, his 
father and their entire families having emi¬ 
grated from Germany in 1868, after having 
lived a good many generations in Germany, 
previous to that time having emigrated in¬ 
to Germany from Switzerland, where they 
had lived a great many generations before 


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that. Or some like the quite numerous de¬ 
scendants of John Staat Beach, of Bristol, 
England, who came to America in 1677, 
and died in Ohio, who had two sons, 
one of whom entered Annapolis Academy; 
or Will A. Beach, of Sioux Falls, S. D., 
whose ancestors emigrated directly from 
Staffordshire, England, only a few genera¬ 
tions back, or Harry Beach, of Stillwater, 
Minn., whose grandfather, John Beach, of 
Rossette, England, near the border of 
Wales, after serving many years with Lord 
Nelson, settled in Nova Scotia and from 
that point found their way into the States. 
But as a rule ask a Beach and he says “My 
folks came from Connecticut, or Massachu¬ 
setts, or New York, or Pennsylvania, or New 
Jersey.’’ And if by chance it is some other 
state, a few questions will show that a little 
earlier his people came out of New Eng¬ 
land. So we may usually say and feel of 
a Beach in America if not just known to 
be our immediate family the chances are 
eight or nine to one that at least our an¬ 
cestors were brothers in 1639. 

It is not known who the father of these 
three sons was. The late George Mason 
Beach, of Chicago, believed him to have 
been a clergyman of Derbyshire, England. 
I do not know, but I find no evidence of 
our coming from Derbyshire. But I have 
a very strong notion, we may have come 


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from Hertfordshire, not far from London, 
as explained in that part of this book re¬ 
served for my guesses. Some investiga¬ 
tors have gone so far as to say that Planter 
John Beach, of New Haven was of no rela¬ 
tion to Planters Richard and Thomas 
Beach. That Richard and Thomas were 
brothers is proved. It would appear that 
Thomas was not the most peaceable person 
in the world, or at any rate on one occa¬ 
sion he got into an altercation with one 
Edward Camp. Camp followed him on 
the way home that day and beat him up 
with a cudgel, and Thomas sued him and 
got a judgment for damages. They were 
all brought before the town council of New 
Haven, sitting as a court, and in the testi¬ 
mony of the suit, Thomas Beach, Planter, 
testified that he was a brother of Richard 
Beach, Planter, on whose farm the alter¬ 
cation took place and near whose place the 
cudgeling was done. Personally I accept 
without question the statement that John 
too was a brother. He apparently came to 
New Haven about four years after Richard 
settled there. John was not one of the orig¬ 
inal proprietors, but he purchased the home 
lot and rights of one of the original plant¬ 
ers who owned the home lot lying immedi¬ 
ately south of and adjoining that owned 
by Richard Beach, these two lots being per¬ 
haps within 300 feet of where the armory 


now stands in New Haven. Both John and 
Richard took the oath of fidelity before 
Governor Eaton on the same day. They 
were much together. About 1645 Richard 
was appointed administrator for the es¬ 
tate of his cousin William lies. He was 
compelled to furnish a satisfactory bonds¬ 
man on that occasion and John Beach was 
the man who went his bond. Everything 
indicates they were brothers, and the old 
historians affirm it. 

Just how these three brothers got into 
the community at New Haven is not thus 
far known to me. The stock company which 
settled New Haven Colony was made up 
in London, sailing from there in the Hector 
and another small sailing boat chartered 
for the purpose. They sailed from Lon¬ 
don in April, 1637, and came directly to 
Boston, ascending the Charles River, and 
disembarking either at Boston or in the 
vicinity of Watertown in June, 1637. That 
company was headed by Reverend John 
Davenport of London, and by Samuel Eat¬ 
on, of Coventry, England; Theophilus Eat¬ 
on an older brother of Samuel; Edward 
Hopkins, a Puritan merchant of London, 
whose wife was a daughter of Theophilus 
Eaton by a second wife; Thomas 
Yale and David Yale, two young sons 
of Mrs. Eaton by a former marriage, 
one of them to become famous in 


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America later as founder of Yale College, 
and John Evance, another merchant of 
London. Besides these families, related to 
Davenport as Parishoners or to Theophilus 
Eaton by families, several other citizens of 
London joined the company, among them 
were Stephen Goodyear, Richard Malbon, 
Thomas Gregson, William Peck, Robert 
Newman, Francis Newman and Ezekiel 
Cheever. These with their families formed 
the nucleus of the company. Other families 
from rural districts also joined. There was a 
company of Kentish men from the diocese 
of Canterbury, and another company from 
Kent, and a company of about forty headed 
by Rev. Peter Pruden from Hereford, west 
part of England near the border of Wales. 
These latter afterward withdrew 1 from 
New Haven Colony to found the colony of 
Milford four and a half miles south of 
New Haven. Just at the last moment there 
were heavy additions to the company, so 
many in fact that they could not all come 
on the two small boats they had chartered 
and a considerable number had to remain 
behind in England, and these came out two 
years later on the first boat sailing directly 
to New Haven, where they arrived in 1639 
bringing men from Kent, Surry and Sus¬ 
sex, in all about 250 families. 

Davenport had formerly preached in a 
parish of London but he had been driven 


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out of London by the activities of the con¬ 
formist arch bishop of Canterbury, Laud. 
Most of the other men of wealth who joined 
this company had been members of Daven¬ 
port’s parish, and all of them had turned 
their entire estate into cash, and had invest¬ 
ed it all in this enterprise, joining them¬ 
selves to the company for the purpose of 
establishing a permanent colony of their 
own, where they might worship God in 
their own way free from the annoyances 
then being experienced in England. But it 
should be added, without any idea whatever 
of religious freedom or toleration. Any one 
joining the company had to be a Congrega¬ 
tionalism or nothing. And if he chose to 
be nothing he had to mind his steps and 
conduct himself with due decorum, accord¬ 
ing to the notions of the freemen. 

After this company landed in Boston 
in June, 1637, Davenport and the Eatons 
began looking around for a suitable place 
to establish their colony. Many towns and 
communities already established in Mas¬ 
sachusetts made flattering offers, because 
they were recognized as being specially de¬ 
sirable in any community on account of 
the number of comparatively rich men and 
merchants in it, which gave backbone to 
the company. But these older communities 
were already running, with officials already 
in power, and customs more or less settled 


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down. Probably for this very reason, none 
of the nearby places in old Massachusetts 
appealed to the leaders. The whole com¬ 
pany remained in or near Boston, all that 
winter of 1637. 

The war with the Pequod Indians had 
just been concluded with the utter de¬ 
struction of the tribe in the western part 
of Connecticut where they had been pur¬ 
sued, and put to the sword as they slept 
in their wigwams in fancied security. The 
returning soldiers brought back glowing 
tales of the country on the Quinnipiac 
River, aiid of the location at Quinni¬ 
piac as New Haven was called by the In¬ 
dians. Beside the timber lands, or uplands 
as they were called, there were wide mea¬ 
dows covered with grass, and spacious old 
fields which had been fertilized and under 
cultivation by the Indians. The river and 
harbor were reported to be fine for ship¬ 
ping and that pleased the merchants of the 
company. When Davenport heard of these 
things, they sent out Theophilus Eaton 
with a company of men to investigate. 
Eaton thought so well of the place that he 
left seven men to winter there, build huts, 
and hold the location and with the rest he 
sailed back to Boston. 

After formally presenting the mutter 
to Davenport and the rest of the 
stockholders it was decided and settled that 


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Quinnipiac should be the site of their new 
settlement. Six men were appointed to 
buy the land, a tract about nine or ten 
miles square, and hold title for the com¬ 
pany, the purchase being made from the 
few scattering remnants of once powerful 
tribes, who lived there and claimed the 
land. The native Indians of that part of 
Connecticut had been wiped out by the 
fierce Mohawks of the Hudson Valley, and 
only a handful remained. The purchase was 
made for a dozen coats, and blankets, a 
few guns, and some other trinkets, with 
the distinct understanding .that should the 
Indians be molested by the Mohawks in 
the part reserved for themselves, they 
might have the right to come to the white 
settlement for protection. This was all 
agreed to, and early in the spring of 1638 
the whole company re-embarked at Boston, 
and sailed around to the south side of Con¬ 
necticut where they took possession and 
built their first homes, many of them dug- 
outs in the side of the bank—cellars, they 
called them. 

Among the proprietors of that first 
company, RICHARD BEACH, our ances¬ 
tor in America appears as one of the orig¬ 
inal stockholders of the company with 
twenty pounds sterling invested, about 
$100, himself a single man or at any rate, 
“heads in his family is given as 1” at time 


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of distributing of land. The heaviest stock¬ 
holder in the company, Theophilus Eaton, 
had three thousand pounds invested or 
about $15,000. 

They laid out a town plat, two miles 
square, crossed each, way at equal distances 
by two streets or roadways. This cut the 
town into nine quarters, or sections, the 
one in the center being reserved for the 
meeting house, and market place, known 
as Town Square. The places to be occu¬ 
pied by each stockholder was determined 
by casting lots, and the size of their hold¬ 
ings was determined as follows: 

“A portion of land according to the 
proportion of estate which he hath given 
in, and the number of heads in his fam¬ 
ily- 

“In the first division (that is the two 
mile square, five acres were allowed for 
each one hundred pounds of estate, and 
equal amount for each two heads. 

“In the meadow, five acres for each 
one hundred pounds of estate, and one- 
half acre for each head. 

“The Neck (apparently a specially 
rich garden portion of land near the 
town) was divided one acre for each one 
hundred pounds of estate, and one half 
acre for each head.” 

After they had outgrown these first al¬ 
lotments, or as soon as they were ready for 
more land, Oct. 23, 1640, a second division 
of outlands, or uplands was made: 

“Twenty acres of uplands (that is 
woods) for each one hundred pounds 
of estate, and 2 % acres for each head.” 


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Our ancestor Richard Beach under this 
distribution was allotted: 

3M> acres in the tirst addition. 

1/2-32 in the Neck. 

iy 2 acres of meadow land. 

G acres of Upland. 

At first they held religious services 
under a large oak tree. They were kept 
busy building their houses and barns and 
pulling themselves together, and do not ap¬ 
pear to have had much time to think about 
government or the church, seeing to their 
first crops. 

But after a few months they began to 
think about “gathering a church’’ and “or¬ 
dering civil government,” and at last 
Davenport preached a sermon on it in 
which he referred to the matter, and he 
appointed a “season of extraordinary hu¬ 
miliation and prayer,” and shortly after 
this a general meeting seems to have 
been called to talk over these things. 
In the meantime Davenport had is¬ 
sued a treatise on the subject in 
which he argued that the laws of 
God as revealed in the Bible furnished 
sufficient basis for laws and government of 
communities as well as for churches. So 
when the first informal meeting was called 
most everybody agreed with him, and that 
the Bible should be the basis of the laws 
of New Haven. But first they arranged 


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for “gathering the church,” which they 
agreed should be done as follows: 12 men 
were to be elected from among their num¬ 
ber. These twelve were then to meet and 
organize themselves by electing a chairman 
and secretary, and after a season of prayer 
these 12 men were to select from among 
themselves seven men, who were to be the 
foundation or first church. They were to 
“covenant together,” elect their officers, 
and arrange their “ritual,” and then admit 
others to their “fellowship.” And thus it 
was carried out, and thus the first Congre¬ 
gational Church of New Haven was brought 
into being. 

The church being thus duly “gather¬ 
ed,” a committee was appointed to put into 
shape, and arrange the matters of civil gov¬ 
ernment ready to act on. At the informal 
meeting held everybody had practically 
agreed that the “word of God as revealed 
in his written word” furnished sufficient 
law for the government of a commonwealth, 
and that church members, and they only 
should be free men, or hold any office, and 
they appear to have signed some sort of a 
writing, but it had not been settled. When 
the committee had things in hand a formal 
meeting was called on June 4, 1639, for the 
purpose of finally settling these important 
matters. This meeting it is said was held 
in a large barn belonging to one of the 


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Newmans. And it was at this meeting on 
June 4th, that our ancestor, Richard Beach, 
first comes actually into view, as will be 
seen elsewhere in quotations in this book. 

While he was one of the original pro¬ 
prietors, and no doubt present in the colony 
all this time, since his allotments were all 
made with the rest, still it appears from 
the record itself that he was not present at 
the first meeting when the matter was first 
talked over. For some reason or other he 
had been absent at the first meeting, as was 
the case with six or seven others, possibly 
they had been out on military duty, for a 
guard of seven or eight was constantly on 
duty night and day, to prevent surprises 
bv Indians. 

The very first thing settled at this meet¬ 
ing referred to as Quaere No. 1, was tills 
matter of making the Bible and God’s Law, 
the civil law of New Haven. For that pur¬ 
pose Thomas Fugill, who had been chosen 
secretary, stood up and gave out the propo¬ 
sition they had discussed, and “not one 
vote was cast against it.” Then he wrote 
it all out in the book, and stood up again, 
and read it over as written, and again 

everybody raised their hand, and it became 
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law. Nobody could be a freeman or hold 
office except members of the Church “or 
those who hoped by the grace of God to be 
made acceptable thereto.” 


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The second matter attended to as Quaere 
No. 2, was the matter of these six or seven 
planters who had not been present at the 
first meeting, and apparently had not yet 
signed the papers. Everything was re¬ 
hearsed to them and they agreed to every¬ 
thing. Then Richard Beach, and the rest 
walked up and signed the compact. From 
that point on Richard Beach appears quite 
frequently in the record. That was in 1639. 
In 1641 he married the Widow Hull, who 
lost her husband the year before, and they 
settled presumably on Richard’s home lot, 
and Richard’s four children of whom we 
have record were born in New Haven. In 
due time a meeting house was built, and 
later, about 1647, when a record was order¬ 
ed made of the seating in the meeting 
house, this court record shows where Rich¬ 
ard and his wife sat. After proceeding by 
sections thus far, the record says: 

‘‘On the side for men, on the other 
side of the door, the second row has to 
sit in it George Smith, John Wakefield, 
Edward Patterson and Richard Beach.” 

Continuing in the same record: 

“On the side for women, in seats on 
the other side of the door. The first row 
has to sit in it, John Thomas’s wife, 
Goody Beach, Goody Knowles, and Goody 
Hull.” 

Remaining details may be found in the 
vital history of Richard Beach. 


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Chapter V 


BROTHERS OF RICHARD, 
PLANTER 

Before I pass to the continuation of the 
history of our families, I desire to give a 
short sketch of the two brothers of Richard 
Beach, Planter. 

John Beach, brother of Richard, was 
not a proprietor of New Haven. He came 
to town about four years after it was started 
and appears a number of times in the 
record. He lived in New Haven till 1650, 
when he married Mary, and settled in 
Wallingford, about seven miles north of 
New Haven, John being a proprietor and 
member of the company that settled Wal¬ 
lingford. He lived in Wallingford ten 
vears, and his four older children were 
born there. In 1660 he removed to Strat¬ 
ford, some eight miles southwest of New 
Haven and here the remaining six children 
of his family were born and brought up. 
Planter John died in New Haven. His 
children were: 

ELIZABETH BEACH, born March 8, 1652. 
She married Eliasaph Preston, and they reared 
a large family at Wallingford. 

JOHN BEACH, born April, 1654. He mar¬ 
ried Hannah Staple, daughter of Thomas 


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Staple, of Fairfield, Conn., and they settled in 
Stratford where they reared a large family. 

Among living descendants of John may be 
named Rev. King D. Beach, 8 Barclay Ave., 
Grand Rapids, Mich. 

William C. Beach, 219 Kipp Ave., Hasbrouck, 
N. J. 

THOMAS BEACH, born May, 1659. He 
married first Ruth Peck, who died, after which 
he married second Phoebe Wilcoxson, daughter 
of Timothy Wilcoxson. Thomas had a large 
family and his sons all settled in Wallingford. 
Thomas died and is buried at Meriden, Conn. 

Moses Yale Beach, founder of the New York 
Sun, the first penny paper in New York City, 
was a descendant of this Thomas. His son, 
Joseph Perkins Beach, later became part owner, 
and was managing editor throughout the period 
of the Civil War. One of his daughters, Mary 
Beach Moss, resides now at Cheshire, Conn., 
where her father lived and died. 

Frank Arthur Beach, Sr., 1105 Davis St. El¬ 
mira, N. Y. 

NATHANAEL BEACH, born March, 1662. 
lie married Sarah Porter and reared a family 
of ten children. These settled mostly in Strat¬ 
ford, some at Trumbull and nearby places. 
Many important citizens are descendants of 
Nathanael. Among these are: 

Francis E. Beach, a hardware merchant, 
residing at Bridgeport, Conn. 

Harrison L. Beach, one of the editors and 
owners of San Antonion Light, San Antonio, 
Texas, and his brother: 

Major General Lansing II. Beach, chief of 
Engineers, U. S. A., Washington, D. C. 

Charles L. Beach, residing at Rockford. 111., 
one of a large family of fourteen. 

Willys Eugene Beach, 104 S. Mantowese St., 
Branford, Conn. 

Rowland M. Beach, florist, Norwalk, Conn. 

Edward D. Beach, real estate and invest¬ 
ments, First National Bank Bldg., Bridgeport, 
Conn. 


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B. C. Beach, manufacturer of stoves, ranges 
and furnaces, Ottawa, Ont. 

Bennet S. Beach, M. D., 144 W. 85th St., New 
York City, N. Y. 

HANNAH BEACH, born Dec., 1665. 

SARAH BEACH, born Nov. 1667. 

ISAAC BEACH, born June 29, 1669. He 
married Hannah Birdsey and settled in Strat¬ 
ford. He was a tailor and his three sons all 
became important and prominent men. 

The Rev. John Beach, a notable figure dur¬ 
ing the period of the Revolutionary War in 
Fairfield, about whom a book has been written 
by Rebecca Donaldson Beach, of New Haven, 
and whose descendants are scattered over half 
the states of the Union, was of this line. 

Other descendants of Isaac are— 

i 

Frederick E. Beach, 16 Roosevelt Avenue, 
Binghamton, N. Y. 

JOSEPH BEACH, born Feb. 5, 1671. He 
married Abia Booth and they reared a family 
of seven. 

BENJAMJN BEACH, born 1674. He married 
Mary Hitchcock and settled in West Jersey, 
Hunterdon County, and they reared a family 
of eight. 

Living descendants of John Beach, 
Planter, may be found in all parts of the 
country today. 

‘TV* *71* *7S* 

Planter Thomas Beach, brother of John 
and Richard, first appears in the New 
Haven records in 1646. He took the oath 
of fidelity there March 7, 1647, and there he 
was married in 1652-3 to Sarah, daughter 
of Deacon Richard Platt, planter of Mil¬ 
ford Colony, Conn. He resided after his 
marriage in New Haven about a year, and 


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his oldest daughter was born there, but in 
1654 Thomas was offered an acre of land 
in Milford on which to build a home on 
condition that he would set up and prac¬ 
tice his trade there, believed to be that of 
blacksmith. Thomas accepted the offer 
and moved to Milford in 1654, and there 
his family was born and reared, and there 
Thomas died. He was named among the 
“after planters’’ of Milford, the original 
colony of forty-one having been settled in 
1644, under the leadership of Rev. Peter 
Pruden. 


CHILDREN 

SARAH BEACH, born March 1, 1654, possi- 
blj T married Samuel Lyon of Milford. 

JOHN BEACH, born Oct. 19, 1655. He mar¬ 
ried Mary and settled in Wallingford, Conn., 
where his uncle John and his uncle John’s son 
John lived at the same time. He had a family 
of six children. His oldest son Thomas, born 
1686, reared a large family in Milford, Conn., 
among them a son Landa, who had a son Sam¬ 
uel, born in Milford in 1762. Mr. Frank J. 
Beach and his sister Fannie E. Beach, of Wood- 
mont, Conn., are descendants of this Samuel by 
his son John ; Mr. Harvey Beach, 81 years old, 
and his daughter Annie Laurie of Milford, Conn., 
are descendants of this Samuel by his son Sam¬ 
uel 5th; Clifton F. Beach of Palo Alto, Calif., 
is a descendant of this Samuel by his son Denis; 
Mr. L. L. Beach, Bristol, Conn., is a descendant 
of this Samuel by his son Hammond Rogers, and 
there are many others. 

The second son of John of Wallingford was 
John Beach, Jr., born in 1690, who married, and 
ultimately removed to Goshen, Conn., where he 
became widely known as Deacon John Beach. 
He seems to have been a man of great personal 


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power and of considerable business ability. He 
had a large family of twelve, and gave each of 
them a farm when they married. Litchfield 
County, Conn., has descendants to this day. A 
large monument was erected in Goshen to his 
memory, and descendants are scattered all over 
the Union. 

Leslie W. Beach, 1136 Main St., Richmond, 
Ind., is also a descendant, by the line of Zerah 
Beach, who was the only living white person 
that escaped the Indian massacre of Wyoming 
Valley. 

Helen Beach, care of Brown Shipley & Co., 
Bankers, 123 Pall Mall, London, Eng., residing 
in Switzerland, is of this lhie, also Frank E. 
Beach, New Castle, Ind. 

Edith Beach Rathmell, Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Goodwin T. Beach, investments, 720 Main St., 
Hartford, Conn. 

Dr. C. C. Beach, 54 Woodlawn Place, Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. 

Mary Beach Bartlett, Melrose, Wis. 

Madison J. C. W. Beach, tanner, Ridgeway, 
Pa. 

Elwin P. Beach, 1036 Cass Ave., Grand 
Rapids, Mich. 

George M. Beach, Supt. of Police, 164 W. 
Main, Waterbury, Conn. 

MARY BEACH, born Dec. 27, 1657. No 
trace of her. 

SAMUEL BEACH, born June 5, 1660, mar¬ 
ried but had no family according to my avail¬ 
able records. 

ZOPHER BEACH, born May 27, 1662. Mar¬ 
ried and moved very early into New Jersey, 
where he has many descendants. Zopher left 
Milford as “a protest against the half way 
Covenant of Milford.” 

Mr. David Nelson Beach, 74 years old, of 
Guilford, Conn., is a descendant of this Zopher, 
as are: 


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Mr. Samuel F. Beach, a carriage maker of 
Morristown, New Jersey, and his six living 
brothers, all of New Jersey. 

THOMAS BEACH, no record of birth, prob¬ 
ably youngest son. Perhaps born after the death 
of his father. Is mentioned in the will of Miles 
Merwin, who married the widow and reared a 
family in Milford. 

Thomas Beach, Planter, died in 1662. 

Thus one might go on ad infinitum. 


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Chapter YI 


OUR FAMILIES 

However, it does not conform with the 
purpose of this little book to point out all 
important descendants and trace the family 
histories of descendants of all three of 
these brothers. Parties interested should 
do so now, find out what is missing and con¬ 
nect up very soon, or all will be eternally 
lost in the flux of time. It is my purpose 
only to trace some of the descendants of 
Planter Richard Beach, and that mainly 
as it relates to my own immediate line of 
descent. Much as I should like to do so I 
must be excused if I fail to trace all im¬ 
portant connections and dismiss many im¬ 
portant families with a few slight re¬ 
marks. It soon becomes a human impracti¬ 
cability to scatter one’s attention to all the 
radiating lines of descent from any given 
point, with positively no good results to 
any one. unless a person is in the business 
of writing genealogies, which I am not. I 
shall therefore confine myself very closely 
to our immediate line of descent which I 
have rescued from limbo, after being care¬ 
lessly consigned there by my grandfather, 


47 


who left the east as a young man, did not 
return and permitted himself to die in 1878 
without leaving a scratch of a pen beyond 
his own birth date in his own Bible, not 
even his father’s name or the town of his 
birth being given. 

Ours must have forever remained a 
closed book, so far as we are concerned, 
except for one or two comparatively insig¬ 
nificant facts. When I reached the age to 
inquire about my family, father “did not 
know.” I wrote a letter to my Uncle 
George J. Beach, of Green Bay, Wis., who 
as a lad of twelve had accompanied his 
father back east on the only trip ever made, 
about 1850, and Uncle George remembered: 

“That his grandfather’s name was 
Apollos Beach: that Apollos lived in 
Massachusetts on the Connecticut River; 
that he had a son Apollos W., and a son 
David M., and a son William Chauncey; 
that David M. had a son Apollos and a 
daughter Angeline Jane, and others; the 
name of the place, village or county as it 
might be he could not remember, but it 
might be “Northumberland.” 

This did not get me very far. The let¬ 
ter was written twenty-five years ago, and 
for more than twenty-three years I search¬ 
ed and wrote, but every way I turned I 
came up against a stone wall hard as ada¬ 
mant. 

In the summer of 1921 I learned of a 
Beach Reunion to be held in Muncie, Ind., 


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and I went. It proved to be a little local 
family affair, a small branch of the Thomas 
Beach people headed by a son of George 
P. Beach of Spiceland, Indiana, descend¬ 
ants of that Zerah Beach, who was the 
only white survivor of the massacre of 
Wyoming Valley. Of general Beach his¬ 
tory they knew but little more than I ex¬ 
cept for a few scrappy old notes on early 
Beach history furnished by the late George 
Mason Beach, of Chicago. Among these 
old notes I saw a statement that certain 
facts were furnished by Joseph Perkins 
Beach, of Cheshire, in an interview in 1882. 
I did not then know who Joseph Perkins 
Beach was, but I knew he must be dead 
after forty years. Nevertheless I addressed 
a letter to him at Cheshire, Conn. My let¬ 
ter fell into the hands of a daughter, Mary 
Beach Moss, wife of Judge Howard D. 
Moss, of Cheshire and New Haven. I re¬ 
ceived an acknowledgment saying her 
father had made something of a study of 
early Beach history, intending at one time 
to publish a book; that if I would tell her 
what I knew she would see what she could 
do, I sent her the above facts from Uncle 
George’s letter, and almost by return mail 
I received a complete vital history of Apol- 
los Beach, and Azariah Beach, his father, 
1743, both of whom had lived since 1805 
in Northfield, Massachusetts—Northfield 


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being' the “Northumberland” of Uncle 
George’s errant memory. 

Mr. Beach was not certain who the 
father of Azariali was. Himself a descen¬ 
dant of Planter John. Beach, he had not 
been specially interested in Richard Beach 
history, and had contented himself with 
recording the facts, without following down 
suggestions. He had recorded his supposi¬ 
tion that Azariali Beach, 1743, was in 
reality Azariah Beach, 1750, son of John, 
son of Thomas of Northaven. But he ad¬ 
ded in a footnote, “He may be a son of 
Azariah, 1705, born in Stratford,” on 
whom he had a stray record. This latter 
guess proved to be correct. 


But with this definite information on 
two generations I had something to work 
on. My walls of adamant had begun to 
crumble. These records said that Azariah 
was born in 1743 and that his youngest son 
was born in 1793. Azariah himself was 
therefore alive in 1790 when the first cen¬ 
sus of the United States was taken. At a 
suggestion from Helen Beach, c/o Brown 
Shipley & Co., Bankers, 123 Pall Mall, 
London, England, a descendant of Planter 
Thomas, eighty years of age, then residing 
in Geneva, Switzerland, I went to our local 
library and there found a copy of the cen¬ 
sus of 1790 nicely indexed. After several 
hours study I was able to know that only 


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one Azariah Beach, head of a family, was 
taken in that census, and he resided with 
his family in the town of Hebron, Tolland 
County, Conn. I next wrote the deacon of 
old first church, Hebron. The church and 
its records had been burned, but my letter 
got into the hands of Anna Gilbert, as¬ 
sistant town clerk of Hebron, and from her 
old township records, when township, 
church, land and vital records were one 
kept by the town clerk, she was able to tell 
me all I needed to know; that the father of 
Azariah Beach, 1743, was Azariah Beach, 
1705, and that his father Richard Beach, 
1677, with his family had moved to Hebron 
from Durham, Conn., in 1730. At Dur¬ 
ham, Conn., in the same way I was able to 
secure certified copies of names and birth 
dates of all children, and the marriages and 
names of husbands and Avives were record¬ 
ed in Hebron. The land records of both 
to\A r ns showed the land they had bought 
and sold, and these with the detached rec¬ 
ords of Joseph P. Beach on our early fam¬ 
ilies gave me beyond possibility of error 
every essential fact of our descent, which 
I have since completed and verified from 
original toAvn and church records of that 
time. 

I realize, I think, the full force of the 
remark, “0, vdiat difference does it make 
who Ave are.” Nobody cares to build on 


51 


his father’s achievements or lack of achieve¬ 
ments, I am sure. At the same time, I 
count myself among those who hold that 
a child has a right to know who he is, and 
I feel it my duty to my posterity to make 
available the facts which have cost me so 
much, and which but for a miracle had 
passed into oblivion unrecorded. I am 
doing this primarily for my own people, 
hoping at the same time, the path I here 
blaze may prove a guide to other searchers 
of the Beach family lost in the wilderness 
of time. 

This then is our line of descent in Am¬ 
erica : 


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Chapter VII 


OUR ANCESTRAL TREE 


i. 


FIRST GENERATION IN AMERICA 


My 

Genealogical 

Number 


Genealogical 
Number of 


Parent 


1 RICHARD BEACH, Planter, of New 
Haven Colony, 1039, born about 1618 
or 1620, perhaps in Hertfordshire, Eng¬ 
land, died after 1688. Married 1641, to 
Catherine (Cook) Hull, widow of An¬ 
drew Hull of New Haven, by whom she 
had a family of two daughters. 

Children of Richard Beach and 


Catherine Hull: 


2 MARY BEACH, born June, 1642, in 1 
New Haven. Nothing known of her. 

3 BENJAMIN BEACH, born Oct. 1644, 1 
in New Haven, Conn. He married 1st 
1670-1, Mary Peacock, daughter of John 
and Joyce Peacock, married 2nd, Feb. 

1, 1677-8, Sarah Welles, born Sept. 28, 
1659, daughter of John and Elizabeth 
(Curtis) Welles. Married 3rd, 1705, 
Widow Mary Fairchild. Benjamin set¬ 
tled Stratford, Conn., where he reared 
a family of six, some of whom settled 
in Trumbull, Conn., but for the most 
part they remained in and near Strat¬ 
ford. Rebecca Donaldson Beach, in 
her history of the Rev. John Beach, 
page 144, says of him, “From him de¬ 
scended Benjamin Beach, the merchant 
and owner of vessels, a man of property 
who built the house where Mr. Duteher 
lived in 1863.” 

4 AZARIAH BEACH, born July, 1646, 1 

in New Haven, Conn. See following his¬ 
tories. 

5 MERCY BEACH, baptized May 21, 1 
1648. Nothing known of her. 


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These are the recorded children of 
Richard Beach, Planter. That there may 
have been other descendants born between 
1648 and 1688 seems probable, though noth¬ 
ing more is definitely known at this time. 
Richard appears to have been something 
of a rover, up to the time of settling in 
Elizabeth, New Jersey, and did not remain 
long in a place. A vail of partial obscur¬ 
ity covers his whereabouts and doings be¬ 
tween 1648, when he disappears from the 
active records of New Haven Colony, and 
1660. He may have resided in Walling¬ 
ford, where he was one of the proprietors, 
or at some other point, but in the year 1660 
he purchased land in Stratford, Conn., the 
same year his brother John moved there, 
and in 1664 he was keeping a tavern in 
Stratford. 

1664 was the year that Elizabethtown, 
New Jersey was first founded. And in 
that year Richard Beach sold out in Strat¬ 
ford and with his entire family except 
Benjamin, who was already married and 
settled in Stratford, moved to Elizabeth, 
New Jersey, where he purchased a home 
lot of 13 acres. This purchase was made in 
1665. He also purchased 50 acres of up¬ 
land on Beaclie’s Brook, 30 acres of upland 
on Crane's Brook, and several other smaller 
holdings in all 102 acres and resided in 
Elizabeth till 1688. March 31, 1688, he sold 


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all of his land in Elizabeth to the Widow 
Agatha White, who sixteen days later re¬ 
sold to William Darbie, of Elizabeth. 

Richard is thought to have removed to 
Morris County, New Jersey, but at this 
point he is lost sight of. 


II 


SECOND GENERATION IN AMERICA 

4 AZARIAII BEACH, second son of 1 
Richard Beach and Catherine Hull, 
born July, 1040, in New Haven, Conn., 
died in New Haven, age 50 years (ac¬ 
cording to the record of Joseph P. 

Beach) married Martha- r* -in 

Wallingford and settled there. 

CHILDREN 

10 MARIA BEACH, born Sept, 5, 1670, 4 

in Wallingford, Conn. Nothing known of 
her. ^ 

11 RICHARD BEACH, born Oct. 19, 4 
1677, in Killingworth, Conn. See our 
histories. 

12 THOMAS BEACH, born Oct. 5, 4 
1679, in Killingford, Conn. He married 
Feb. 19, 1702, Sarah Sanford, of Wal¬ 
lingford, daughter of Thomas and Eliza¬ 
beth (Payne) Sanford and grand 
daughter of Thomas and Sarah Sanford 
of Milford. They settled in North 
Haven, Conn., where their family of 
eight was born. Their oldest son, 
Benjamin, reared a family at Muddy 
Brook, of which 

Eldest son REVEREND BENJAMIN 
reared a large family in Cornwall and 


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Seymour, Conn., containing a son Giles 
with a large family, and a son Joel who 
reared a family in Mount Pulaski, Ill. 

Third son NATHANAEL reared a 
large family and died in Caanan, Vt. 

Fourth son ELIAS married Elizabeth 
Gilbert, and reared a large family, eld¬ 
est son Gilbert settling in Waterloo, N. 

Y., and second son Stephen settling in 
North Haven. 

See Families of David Hubbard 
Beach. 

13 BENJAMIN BEACH, born Jan. 14, 4 
1G82, in Killingworth, Conn. See fam¬ 
ilies of James Beach, 1835. 

14 HANNAH BEACH, born 1G85. Noth- 4 
ing of her. Some records give a Han¬ 
nah, and some make no mention of her. 

Azariah Beach accompanied his father 
to Elizabeth, N. J., in 1665, but he did not 
remain long. He was in Newark, N. J., in 
1669, but he removed to the vicinity of New 
Haven and in 1673 he took the place that 
had been his father’s in Wallingford, 
Conn., and shortly after that was married 
and settled in Wallingford where his oldest 
daughter was born. He removed to Killing- 
worth, Conn., where he was one of the pro¬ 
prietors and grant owners, and there the 
rest of his recorded family was born. 

Like his father, Richard, Azariah, in 
early life at least, did not remain long in 
any one place, and but little is known of 
him after 1685, the only present available 
record merely stating that “he returned 
to New Haven and died there, age 50.” 


That there may have been other children of 
Azariah Beach seems probable. Indeed, 
one fact leads me to think there were. In 
her history of the Rev. John Beach, page 
146, Miss Rebecca Donaldson Beach has this 
to say: 

“There is in the New Haven Records 
the following: I, .John Beach, with the 
consent of my father, Azariah Beach, of 
New Haven, a/c to John Hulls of Wal¬ 
lingford, articles of apprenticeship from 
date until he is twenty-one years of age. 
Signed, John Hulls, Azariah and John 
Beach, witnesses, Joseph and Mary 
Royce, date, May 27, 1717.” 

Miss Beach does not claim these people 
as descendants of John, She does not of¬ 
fer any remark or suggestion as to who 
they may be, but merely records the fact 
as she happened on it in the New Haven 
records. I suspect this was our Azariah 
Beach of New Haven, and if so he was alive 
and able to sign this paper in 1717, at the 
age of 71 years, and furthermore he had a 
son, John Beach, then old enough to ap¬ 
prentice, probably born about 1700. 

Ill 

THIRD GENERATION IN AMERICA 

11 RICHARD BEACH, oldest son of 4 
Azariah Beach, born Oct, 19, 1677, in 
Killingworth, Conn., died after 1745, 
probably in Durham Conn., married 
Dec. 7, 1704, Hannah Foote, born Feb. 

13, 1684, daughter of Daniel Foote, of 
Stratford. 


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CHILDREN 


17 AZARIAH BEACH, born Sept. 3, 11 

1705, in Stratford, Conn. See our his¬ 
tories. 

18 JOHN BEACH, born Sept. 10, 1707, 11 
in Stratford, Conn. He married Dec. 

23, 1731, Anne Dibble, born Sept. 1, 

-, probably daughter of Ebeneezer 

Dibble of Colchester, Conn. They set¬ 
tled at Hebron and their family of 
eight mostly died young. Himself and 
wife are buried in Hebron. No de¬ 
scendants are known. 

19 HANNAH BEACH, born in Dur- 11 
ham, Conn. She married Samiuel Os¬ 
borne of Hebron, and the family of six 
were born and reared in Hebron, at 
least till 1759, where information ends. 

20 EUNICE BEACH, born March 28, 11 

1716, in Durham, Conn. She married 
Jos. Hosford of Hebron, May 19, 1737. 
Nothing more. 

21 SARAH BEACH, born Mar. 8, 1723- . 

24, in Durham, Conn. She married Nov. 

8, 1739, Isaac Neland, of Ilebron, Conn. 
Nothing more. 

22 BENJAMIN BEACH, born May 5, 11 

1720-1, in Durham, Conn. He married, 

Aug. 16, 1774, Lydia Sawyer, born Nov. 

2, 1723, daughter of Edw. Sawyer and 
Elizabeth March. His family of four 
was born and died in Hebron. 

Richard Beach seems to have been more 
settled in his habits than his predecessors. 
He settled in Stratford after his marriage 
and his two oldest sons were born there. 
But in 1708 he sold out and removed to the 
new town of Durham, Conn., six miles 
northeast of New Haven, where he was one 


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of the original proprietors. Here he re¬ 
sided till 1730, and his remaining children 
were born in Durham. Besides land grants 
from the Town of Durham of 5 acres, 8 Ms 
acres and 21 2 acres, he purchased several 
other tracts of land, in all over 100 acres. 

About the year 1730 he became inter¬ 
ested in another new town, the Town of 
Hebron, Conn., some twenty miles north¬ 
east of New Haven, across the Connecticut 
River and in that year he sold all of his land 
in Durham and moved with his entire fam¬ 
ily, except Azariah, who was married, to 
Hebron. There he was elected first survey¬ 
or of highways in 1731. On coming to Heb¬ 
ron besides his town grants he purchased a 
farm of 104 acres, and several other tracts 
of land and appears to have been one of the 
substantial men of the town. But it ap¬ 
pears he was not contented in Hebron, and 
in 1738 he deeded his farm of 104 acres to 
Azariah Beach, his oldest son, and the 
records show other deeds of his remaining 
property to the other children, in whole or 
in part deeds of gift, retaining only his 
home lot of 12 acres. He does not appear 
actively in Hebron records again. But the 
records in Durham show that in 1743 he 
was made a final grant of 2M> acres from 
the town, and the Hebron records show that 
two years later in 1745, he deeded his home 
lot in Hebron to Robert Chapman. And it 


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is my theory that he returned to Durham 
where he had lived twenty-two years and 
brought up his family, and probably ended 
his days in Durham. 


IV 

FOURTH GENERATION IN AMERICA 

17 AZARIAH BEACH, oldest son of 11 
Richard Beach, born Sept. 3, 1705, in 
Stratford, Conn., died in Hebron, April 
2, 1785, His tomb stone says 79 years, 

0 months and 15 days of age, that would 
bring death Mar. 18,1785. Married Oct. 

20, 1730, Lydia Burt, daughter of Jona¬ 
than and Mindwell Burt of Durham. 

CHILDREN 

23 MINDWELL BEACH, born Aug. 1, 17 

1731, in Durham, Conn. She married 
Ezekiel Jones of Hebron, and both are 
buried in Hebron. 

24 LYDIA BEACH, born April 28, 17 

1733, in Durham. Nothing of her ex¬ 
cept that she signed the. settlement 
agreement for her father’s estate as 
Lydia Reide. 

25 MEDAD BEACH, born Feb. 19, 1735, 
in Hebron, Conn. Not much known of 
him. He was on the property lists of 
1752 at age of 17 for 21 pounds sterling. 

No doubt lived near Hebron. 

2(1 KATHERINE BEACH, born Mar. 

9, 1737, in Hebron. Nothing known, but 
she signed in the settlement of her 
father’s estate as Catherine Jones. 

27 CAPTAIN ELISHA BEACH, born 17 
1739, in Hebron. See families of Elisha 
Beach, Jr. 


GO 


28 ^ AZARIAH BEACH, born Feb. 23, 17 
1743, in Hebron, Conn. See our his¬ 
tories. 

Deacon Azariah Beach had already 
married and was settled in Durham when 
his father removed to Hebron in 1730. But 
he shortly followed his father and family 
to Hebron, where the four younger mem¬ 
bers of his family were born. Deacon 
Azariah rose to be an important citizen of 
Hebron. He w^as elected in 1732 to suc¬ 
ceed his father as surveyor of highways. 
Later he served in many offices. Lister in 
1736, member of school committee 1738, 
tithing man 1743, quirister (chorister \ 
1751, seater in the meeting house 1755. It 
is recorded that in 1738 it was voted to 
“sing by rule on Sabbath Days, and that 
Azariah Beach, Samuel Rowley and Thom¬ 
as Post shall set the Psalm on Sabbath 
Days and other days of religious worship.” 

After 1781 he is alwavs referred to as Dea- 

%> 

con Azariah Beach. 

Besides the land deeded him by his 
father, he owned several other tracts and 
on the property lists of 1752 was rated 
103 pounds sterling. Like his father be¬ 
fore him, he deeded fifty acres to his son 
Azariah, Jr., in 1776 and in 1784 he deeded 
three other tracts to Azariah, Jr. The 
larger part of liis landed estate appears to 
have been transferred to Azariah, Jr., 


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just before bis death. The last will of 
Deacon Azariah was dated March 10, 1783. 
He died April 2, 1785, and in the will Cap¬ 
tain Elisha Beach, and Azariah Beach, Jr., 
were named as administrators. On Oct. 4, 
1785, Captain Elisha, and Azariah Beach, 
Jr., appeared in court before Hon. Judge 
Spencer and refused the trust imposed in 
them. And the final settlements show 
that Captain Beach, Lydia Reede, Cather¬ 
ine Jones, and Michael Fleshaw, appeared 
as “good evidence” in the settlement of 
the estate of Deacon Azariah Beach, ac¬ 
cording to the probate records of Col¬ 
chester. 


V 


FIFTH GENERATION IN AMERICA 

28 AZARIAH BEACH, third son and 17 
youngest child of Azariah, born Feb. 

23, 1743, in Hebron, Conn. Died after 
1793 in Northfield, Mass. Married April 
7, 1708, Elizabeth Skinner of Hebron, 
Conn. 


CHILDREN 

29 AZARIAH BEACH, born Feb. 24, 28 

1770, in Hebron. He married Philo- 
theta, and both himself and wife are 
buried in Hebron. His family of five 
were born there. Ilis oldest son Amaza 
had a family of seven, whether in Heb¬ 
ron or elsewhere, I do not know, but one 
son, Elijah Beach, born 1817, had 
two sons, Henry Harris, A., born 1843, 
and William Niles, born 1848, and these 


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people were living about 1883 in Bos¬ 
ton, Mass., where Elijah was a mer¬ 
chant tailor. 

30 ELIZABETH SKINNER BEACH, 28 
born Dec. 17, 1773, in Hebron. She mar¬ 
ried Elihu Phelps, and is mentioned in 
Northfield records. 

31 BENJAMIN BEACH, born Sept. 19, 28 
1774, in Hebron, Conn. Nothing of him. 

32 ELIJAH BEACH, born July 31, 1776, 28 

in Hebron. He married Ruth, who died 
1823. Both Elijah and Ruth are buried 

in Hebron. Elijah succeeded his grand¬ 
father as Deacon of Hebron. Died age 
78. 

33 APOLLOS BEACH, born Aug. 9, 28 
1778, in Hebron, Conn. See our his¬ 
tories. 

34 RUBY BEACH, born Feb. 10, 1780, 28 

in Hebron, Conn. Nothing of her. 

35 JOSEPH BEACH, born April, 20, 28 
1782, in Hebron. See families of Joseph 

S. Beach, 1810. 

36 SALOMON BEACH, born May 3, 28 
1784, in Hebron, Conn. Nothing known. 

37 CHATJNCEY BEACH, born Sept. 18, 28 

1786, in Hebron. He married Mary 
Houlton daughter of Salomon Houlton, 
and removed to New London, Conn., 
where his younger children at least were 
born. The oldest son, Chauncey Elihu, 
had a family of four; the second son, 
George Houlton, had a family of four, 
having married Elizabeth T. Morgan of 
Norwich, Conn. They later removed to 
San Francisco, Calif., ultimately set¬ 
tling at St. Helena, Calif. His family 
are all dead childless except daughter, 
Elizabeth, now sixty-eight, who still re¬ 
sides in St. Helena. Elizabeth Skin¬ 
ner Beach, youngest daughter of this 
family married Oct. 18, 1841, to Oliver 
Mudge and had one daughter, Mary 


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Preston Mudge, wlio married Oct. 17, 
1867, to Elisha G. Selcliow, son of Fred¬ 
erick Selchow, of New York City. 

Their children, Mary Leigh, born July 
16, 1868, in New London, Conn.; Am¬ 
anda Pool, born Dec. 23, 1869, in New¬ 
ark, N. J.: Gracie Lyman, born June 
1, 1872, in New York City, as were 
the rest of the family, composed of 
Frederick Mudge, born March 2, 
1S74; Clara Louise, born Oct. 28, 1875; 
Charles Edwin, born July 22, 1877; 

Elizabeth Mudge, born Oct. 26, 1879; 
Harry Garfield, born Sept. 21, 1881; 

Walter Ingalls, born Dec. 13, 1882; 

and Paul Hoffman, born Feb. 17, 1886: 
Mary Preston Mudge Selchow, seven¬ 
ty-seven years of age now resides at 
94 Field Point Road, Greenwich, 
Conn., as does her son Harry Garfield 
Selchow. 

38 LUCY BEACH, born Sept. 10, 1789, 28 

in Hebron. Nothing of her. 

39 WILLIAM R. BEACH, born July 21, 28 

1793. Nothing definitely known, unless 
“cousins Amelia and Lester, and Aunt 
Soplironia, and Aunt Sophronia’s Uncle 
William, referred to by Elizabeth Beach 

of St. Helena, as now residing in Nor¬ 
wich, Conn., may be connected with 
this family. 

Azariah Beach, 1743, was on the proper¬ 
ty lists of 1752 at 23 pounds sterling. In 
1776 he was deeded fifty acres by his 
father by deed of gift. In 1784, just be¬ 
fore the death of his father, he was deeded 
three remaining parcels of land. So that 
the greater part of the landed possessions 
of Deacon Azariah show of record trans¬ 
ferred to Azariah. He was named with 
Captain Elisha, his brother, as one of the 

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administrators of his father’s will, but they 
refused the trust and the estate was settled 
in open court. 

Although the records show that land 
was deeded to him from 1776 to 1784 by 
his father by deeds of gift, and that this 
land was sold between 1784 and 1786 for 
considerations totalling more than. 280 
pounds sterling, the records also show that 
in November 17, 1800, he was so much re¬ 
duced in finances, that he mortgaged “my 
house in Gilead” to John Thompson Pet¬ 
ers for $5.68 and never redeemed it. And 
in Sept. 6, 1804, he mortgaged one acre 
and house to Elijah Beach for $50, “ Never¬ 
theless, this deed is on condition that where¬ 
as the said Azariah is justly indebted to 
the said Elijah for a cow and cash ad¬ 
vanced and paid for him to the amount and 
value of fifty dollars—therefore, if the 
said Azariah shall well and truly pay said 
Elijah the full sum above mentioned with 
interest from date hereof on or before 1st 
day of April next, then this deed is to be 
void, but otherwise to remain in full force 
and virtue in the law- Signed, Azariah 

X 

Beach. Witnesses Elipht Swift and Sil¬ 
vester Gilbert. 

No record is made of the forfeiture, 
but inasmuch as Elijah a couple of years 
later deeds the same property to others, 
it is apparent Azariah never redeemed his 


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house and appears to have been turned out 
of house and home on or about April 1, 
1805, for this fifty dollar debt. And this 
information agrees with the Northfield, 
Mass, records. Azariah with his family ar¬ 
rived in the town of Northfield in 1805. 
lie is believed to have worked there as a 
cooper, his son Apollos, our ancestor, hav¬ 
ing also been a cooper. 

Thus it seems, whatever the immediate 
cause, the entire estate of Deacon Azariah 
Beach, amounting to 300 pounds sterling, 
quite a sum in those days, was dissipated in 
the hands of Azariah, his son, within six¬ 
teen years from 1784 to 1800. 


VI 

SIXTH GENERATION IN AMERICA 

33 APOLLOS BEACH, fourth sou of 28 
Azariah Beach, born Aug. 9, 1778, in 
Hebron, Conn., died Get. 12, 1854, at the 
home of his son, David M. Beaeli, in 
Northlield, Mass. Married 1st, Cliloe 

-, who died Sept, 11, 1805, and is 

buried in lot 145 in Northfield cemetery, 
where a monument now stands to her 
memory. Beside her is an unmarked 
grave which may be that of Apollos. 
Married 2nd, Sally Wright, who died 
Aug. 20, 1831. 

Children of Apollos and Sally Wright 

40 APOLLOS WRIGHT BEACH, born 33 
Nov. 20, 1807, in Northfield or Mon¬ 
tague. See families of Apollos Wright 
Beach. 



41 SALLY BEACH, born June 19, 1809, 33 

in Northfield or Montague. Nothing of 
her yet. / 

42 JOSIAH HALL BEACH, born Sept. 33 
21, 1810, in Northfield, Mass. See fol¬ 
lowing histories. 

43 CHLOE BEACH, born Oct. 5, 1812, 33 

in Northfield, Mass. See history. 

44 WILLIAM CHAUNCEY BEACH, 33 
born Aug. 18, 1814, in Northfield, Mass. 

He married Katie-, two of whose 

brothers were living in 1901-2 at Three 
Rivers, Mich., one in LeRoy, (Michigan, 
as presumed), and one sister in Ypsil- 
anti, Mich. After their marriage they 
settled in Portage, New York, not far 
from Buffalo. They had two sons: 

CHARLES BEACH, who married 
and resided for a time at Portage and 
Leroy (presumably in New York). He 
was a railway conductor, working out 
of Buffalo, and was killed between 
bumpers at Attica, New York, on June 
21, 1880, leaving a young wife and son 
Chauncey. The wife later married 
Charles H. DeSlion, a principal in the 
public schools, and they resided in Buf¬ 
falo. Chauncey grew to manhood, and 
on Dec. 22, 1889, he enlisted in the 21st 
U. S. Infantry for three years, going to 
the Philippine Islands. On Dec. 11, 
1901, when his term of enlistment had 
nearly expired, he was shot in an en¬ 
gagement with the natives, through the 
jaw and neck, and died instantly, with¬ 
out issue. The second son: 

WILLIAM EDWARD BEACH, 
known as Ed Beach, married Dec. 2, 

-, at Oswego, New York, to Anna 

McDonald, of New York. He was then 
known as “The Prince of Locomotive 
Engineers, and Old Boy Beach,” work¬ 
ing out of Buffalo. He later moved west 
and became master mechanic on the M. 

K. & T. Ry. He resided at different 


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times at Parsons, Kansas, Dallas, Tex¬ 
as, Dennison, Texas, and at last ac¬ 
counts was retired, and pensioned, and 
resided at Hillsboro, Texas. He bad 
three sons, Willie, Eddie and Chauncey. 
Reports are a little confused at this 
point. But agree on this, that part died 
in infancy. The wife and remaining 
living sons were drowned in Trinity 
River at Dallas, Texas, according to a 
letter from Aunt Katie to me Feb. 20, 
1902, the information having been fur¬ 
nished her by Chauncey Beach, son of 
Charles. She states that Ed. Beach was 
alive in 1901. According to letter from 
Sophie Wright Beach Sweet, Winsted, 
Conn., in 1922, Ed. Beach, himself was 
drowned, at the time of losing his child¬ 
ren and wife in his attempt to save 
them. 

Sometime about 1800, or prior to 
that date, William Chauncey Beach, 
and wife Katie removed to Delaware 
County, Iowa, where they lived upon a 
small farm in the outskirts of the vil¬ 
lage of Forestville, the farm backing 
up against the brick school house, and 
the church yard. And my earliest recol¬ 
lections, are of picking the posies (but¬ 
tercups in spring) in “Uncle Chaun¬ 
cey’ s” yard, and of going to see “Aunt 
Katie” between sessions of school. 

William Chauncey died in Forest¬ 
ville, July 14, 1883, and is buried on lot 
15, block 2, in that cemetery, and be¬ 
side him his wife Katie. The lot is well 
kept, and has a nice monument, and 
lies two lots away from lot 17, where 
his brother, .Tosiali Hall, is buried. 

All lines both male and female are 
supposed to be extinct in this branch 
of the family. 

45 DAVID MARTIN BEACH, born 33 
Feb. 9, 1817, in Northfield. Mass. See 
families of David M. Beach. 


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4G 


SxVRAH BEACH, born -, in 33 

Nortlifield, Mass. She died unmarried 
Oct. 4, 1864. 

47 HEZEKIAH BEACH, born 1S22. 

He died in 1832, age ten years. 

Apollos Beach was a cooper by trade. 

He lived in Nortlifield and Montague, 
Mass. Except that he was a hare-lipped 
man, a cooper by trade, and that he 
served in the war of 1812, as a substi¬ 
tute for one Benjamin Darling, not 
much is known. 

He appears to have been a man of 
athletic stature, and of undaunted 
courage and stamina. Stories have 
come down in his families, how he 
would take a pork barrel by the chines 
in his teeth and throw it over his head. 
Another story relates to his strength. 

It seems to have been the custom in 
those days after work for the day was 
over to gather at the store or postoffice 
or on the green and pass the time in 
conversation and amusement. A favor¬ 
ite amusement of the time was tests of 
strength, in which the contestants sat 
flat on the ground, grasping a broomstick 
or some other bar between them, their 
feet planted firmly against each other. 

At a given signal each exerted his 
strength until one or the other came to 
his feet. On one occasion the usual 
crowd had gathered, among them a 
stranger. In the tests of strength that 
followed the stranger had worsted 
everybody, and the fun was about to 
languish, when to the delight of every¬ 
body, Apollos appeared on the scene. 
Nods and winks went round, and soon 
Apollos was pitted against the stranger. 

It appears the stranger was foxy as 
well as strong, for at the first test he 
exerted his strength before Apollos was 
well settled, and Apollos came up. This 
made Apollos angry, and he claimed 
the test was unfair and insisted on an¬ 
other test to which the .stranger con- 


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sented. The story goes that Apollos 
then exerted his strength with such, 
force that the stranger flew clear over 
his head on the ground behind. 

Another anecdote is related of Apol¬ 
los while in the army, w T here he was 
known as fearless and intrepid. He 
was on duty on one of the roads along 
the Sound at a time when the British 
fleet was known to be upon the Sound. 
Strict orders had been given, that no 
one should be permitted to pass with¬ 
out giving the countersign. On this oc¬ 
casion a young man of the neighbor¬ 
hood had been into the camp with sup¬ 
plies, and was returning home, pos¬ 
sibly the worse for liquor. At any rate, 
as he came to a sentry instead of ad¬ 
vancing and giving the countersign, he 
yelled at his horses, and lashed them 
forward, forcing the sentry to step out 
of the way, when he would go by laugh¬ 
ing. As he went by the second sentry, 
the sentry yelled that he would not get 
by the next one, knowing that Apollos 
was on duty there. As the country¬ 
man approached the beat of Apollos, 
and received the challenge, the same 
performance was undertaken, the horses 
lashed forward with an oath. But Apol¬ 
los refused to budge. He set his gun 
stock in the ground, and the horses 
crashed onto his bayonet, one horse go¬ 
ing to the ground with the bayonet in 
his breast. Apollos then demanded and 
received the countersign and the sober¬ 
ed man was permitted to pass, in a 
state of considerable chagrin, the dead 
horse being a very valuable animal. 

The foregoing anecdotes are given as 
related in substance by Jeremiah Os¬ 
good Beach, 81 years of age, as he has 
heard them related in his family many 
times. Jeremiah Osgood Beach is a 
descendant of Apollos Wright Beach, 
now residing at No. 16 Osgood Ave., 
New Britain, Conn. 


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VII 


SEVENTH GENERATION IN AMERICA 

42 JOSIAH HALL BEACH, second son 33 
of Apollos Beach, born Sept. 21, 1810, 
in Northfield, Mass. Died Feb. 26, 1878, 
of Bright’s disease, in Forestville, la., 
where he is buried in lot 17, row 2, of 
that cemetery, his grave marked by a 
stone with the inscription on the re¬ 
verse side, “In my father’s house are 
many mansions. If it were not so I 
would have told you. I go to prepare a 
place for thee,” his favorite text. Mar¬ 
ried 1st, Aug. 12, 1832, Sophia Alexan¬ 
der, in Middletown, Conn., attended by 
his brother, Apollos Wright Beach and 
Mary Osgood, who according to Sophie 
Wright Beach Sweet, the daughter of 
Apollos Wright in letter 1922, returned 
to New Britain, and were married that 
afternoon. Married 2nd, Aug. 13, 1855, 
at Berne, N. Y., to Jane Alamareaux, 
born 1816, died Aug. 28, 1858, mother 
of the family. Married 3rd, to Louisa 
Ingalls. 

Children of Josiah Hall Beach and 
Jane Alamareaux 

48 MARY BEACH, born June 30, 1836. 42 
She married Levi Dodge, Sept. 3, 1853, 

in Balston Spa, N. Y., and died without 
issue, Sept. 3, 1855. 

49 GEORGE JUDSON BEACH, born 42 
April 18, 1838, in Saugerties, N.Y. See 
families of George Judson Beach. 

50 MARTHA JANE BEACH, born 42 
Sept. 22, 1841, in Balston, N. Y. See 
families of Martha Jane Beach—Page 

—Noland. 

51 JOSIAH HALL BEACH, Jr., born 42 
Sept. 23, 1843, in Balston, N. Y. See 
families of J. II. Beach. 


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52 LUCY ANN BEACH, born May 13, 
184(1. She died in girlhood. 

Josiah Hall Beach, known in life as 
.T. H. Beach, was an axemaker, and 
blacksmith by trade. At one time 
he worked in the axe factories of Ca- 
hoes, N.Y. About 1850 he made a short 
visit to Massachusetts, and never re¬ 
turned east again. Losing his wife in 
1858, he soon after removed with his 
young children to Novi, Oakland Coun¬ 
ty, Mich., near Detroit, where he mar¬ 
ried again. Shortly before the war, and 
during the early years of the war he 
was engaged as a drover of cattle and 
sheep, purchased in the east, and driven 
through by way of Chicago into south¬ 
western Wisconsin, settling in Grant 
County, Wisconsin, where he owned 
several farms. Here he was joined by 
his two sons and his daughter and their 
wives and husbands, immediately after 
the close of the war. But financial re¬ 
verses overtook him, sweeping away at 
one stroke the accumulated property of 
years. His oldest son returned to Bir¬ 
mingham, near Detroit, J. H. Beach, Jr., 
and his daughter, Martha and their 
families accompanying him to the vil¬ 
lage of Forestville, Iowa, where his 
brother Wm. Chauneey Beach, was liv¬ 
ing. or was about to move to. Here in 
partnership with his son, J. II. Beach, 
Jr./a general blacksmith business was 
set up, and here in 1878 he died and is 
buried. 

During the latter years of his life 
he was a regularly ordained Baptist 
minister, preaching regularly. He was 
a man of sterling qualities, but apt to 
act upon impulse without due consider¬ 
ation. 

He was attended during his last ill¬ 
ness by his son, J. II. Beach, Jr., who 
returned from Kansas to administer his 


42 


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affairs during his last ' illness, and 
death. 

* * * 

This completes the history of the 
first seven generations in America, in 
our line of descent. The remaining his¬ 
tories of this record are arranged for 
ready reference, each under a suitable 
caption, which I trust will be found 
convenient. 




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Chapter VIII 


Genealogical Record 


SECTION I 

FAMILIES OF GEORGE JUDSON BEACH 

Oldest Son of 

JOSIAH HALL BEACH—1810 


VIII 

49 GEORGE JUDSON BEACH, oldest son of Joslah 
H. Beach, born April 18, 1838, in Saugerties, N. Y., 
died Nov. 28, 1909, at Big Suamico, near Green Bay, 
Wis. Married 1st, Dec. 31, 18G3, at Birmingham, 
Mich., to Adeline Eleanor Tucker, born Dec. 3, 1842, 
daughter of Col. Dennison Redfleld Tucker, who was 
Adj. 9th Reg., 5th Brig., 3rd Div. Mil. Service, July 17, 
1838, promoted to Major, July 20, 1839; to Lieut. Col. 
Dec. 11, 1841, to Col. Dec. 20, 1842, and a sister of 
Judge Sullivan R. Kelsey, born in Vermont, 1805, set¬ 
tled Birmingham, Mich., 1844; was Mayor of Corunna, 
and three times member of the legislature from Co¬ 
runna district. Married 2nd, April 28, 1901, Mary 
Styers. 

Children of George J. Beach and Adeline Tucker 

100 GEORGE FRANCIS BEACH, born Nov. 16, 1864, 
Grant County, Wis. See histories. 

101 NETTIE MAY BEACH, born March 29, 1866, 

Grant County, Wis. See histories. 

102 FRED ELL BROOKS BEACH, born Nov. 10, 
1867, at Birmingham, Mich. See histories. 

103 GEORGIANA BEACH, born Sept. 18, 1875, Grove- 
land Township, McPherson County, Kas. See history. 

104 WALTER MAXWELL BEACH, born Aug. 4, 
1877, Groveland Township, McPherson County, Kas. 
See histories. 

105 NELLIE PEARL BEACH, born March 11, 1880, 
McPherson, Kas. 


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George J. Beach was a barber by occupation. 
At the outbreak of the Rebellion he enlisted in 
Bat. A, 1st Mich. Light Artillery, serving to 
near the end of the three-year enlistment when 
discharged on account of chronic disability. Soon 
after his discharge he was married, and settled 
near his father in Grant County, Wis., where 
his two older children were born. After the 
financial reverses of his father he returned with 
his family to Birmingham, Mich., where his 
third child was born, but early in 1874 he re¬ 
moved with his family to McPherson County, 
Kas., where he homesteaded 100 acres of land. 
After completing title to his land, he moved 
into McPherson, the county seat of the county, 
residing there till about 1880, when he sold out 
and removed to Big Suamico, near Green Bay, 
Wis., where he died and is buried. 

IX 

.100 GEORGE FRANCIS BEACH, oldest son of George 
J. Beach and Adeline Eleanor Tucker, born Nov. 16, 
1864, in Grant Co., Wis., near Cassville. Married 1st, 
Dec. 25, 1888, at Stevens Point, Wis., by Rev. Mc- 
Cliesney, to Lillian Evelyn West, born July 13, 1872, at 
Belmont, Wis., daughter of Louis and Nellie West. 
Married 2nd, Dec. 14, 1911, to Donnie Glenn Campbell, 
in Macon, Ga., born May 30, 1871, in Greenville, Tenn., 
daughter of Thomas Campbell. 

Children of G. F. Beach and Lillian West. 

Ill HAROLD WEST BEACH, born Nov. 16, 1893, in 
Ashland, Wis. See history. 

G. F. Beach entered the train service as 
freight brakeman, working out of Green Bay, 
Wis. He was transferred to the Ore service, 
and after moving to Ashland, Wis., in 188G, was 
advanced to the position of freight conductor, 
and at the time of his marriage he was working 
between Ironwood, Mich., and Ashland, Wis., 
with home and headquarters at Ashland. He 
was an active member of the trainmens union, 
and with many others was in the nation-wide 
railroad strike of the '90’s. lie was blacklisted 
by the railroads, and went to Old Mexico, enter¬ 
ing the employ of the Mexican National Rail¬ 
way, as conductor, working out of San Luis 


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Potosi. After several years service in Mexico, 
he returned to the States and settled at Corona, 
^Cal., where he owns citrus interests. He is at 
the present time employed in the Passenger De¬ 
partment of the Union Pacific Railway, in Ne¬ 
vada, his present address being Box 197, Les 
Vegas, Nevada. His home residence and head¬ 
quarters are Riverside, Cal. 


X 


111 HAROLD WEST BEACH, only son of George F. 
Beach, born Nov. 16, 1893, at Ashland, Wis. Married, 
Nov. 23, 1921, in New York City, to Gladys Blanchard, 
born Jan. 19, 1906, in Brooklyn, N. Y., daughter of 
George Washington Blanchard and Mabel Braman. 

They have no children. Harold W. Beach 
spent the early years of his life in Old Mexico, 
except for a year or two in school at Laredo, 
Tex. After the death of his mother he accom¬ 
panied his father to Corona, Cal., where he en¬ 
tered and graduated from High School. In 1915 
he enlisted in the regular army, Co. C., 8th 
Infantry, seeing service in China, Korea, and 
the Philippines. On the outbreak of the World 
War he was transferred to the 2nd Areo Squad¬ 
ron, Kelly Field, San Antonio, Tex., with rank 
of Corporal. He served on both sides in the air 
service, and after a number of promotions was 
discharged at the end of his five-year enlistment 
on December 15, 1920, as Staff Sergeant of the 
99th Observation Squadron. He married and 
settled in San Francisco, Cal., where the fam¬ 
ily resides at 529 Bush St. He is employed as 
clerk in a large wholesale tobacco house. Is a 
member of the Elks, and of the National Geo¬ 
graphic Society. 


IX 

101 NETTIE MAY BEACH, oldest daughter of George 
J. Beach and Adeline Tucker, born March 29, 1866, 
Grant County, Wis. Married 1891, at Green Bay, Wis., 
to Albion Milford Green, born Jan. 29, 1868, son of 
David H. and Caroline Green. 

CHILDREN 

112 GEORGE HENRY GREEN, born Sept. 23, 1892, 
at Green Bay, Wis. 


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A salesman, unmarried, resides with his 
brother’s family at 833 Howard St., Green 
Bay. He entered the army May, 1917, Bat. E, 
1st Wis. Was sent over seas and was in the 
Aisne-Marne Offensive, July 18 to Aug. 6, 1918; 
he also participated in the St. Mihiel Offensive, 
and in the Meuse Argonne Offensive. Was on 
the firing lines from July 12 till Nov. 11, Arm¬ 
istice Day. He had many narrow escapes. Af¬ 
ter the armistice he entered the army of occu¬ 
pation, serving until May 25, 1919, being dis¬ 
charged June 23, 1919, at Camp Grant. 

113 NINA MYRTLE GREEN, born July 13, 1894, in 
Green Bay, Wis. Resides with her parents. 

114 NEAL, WALTER GREEN, born July 30, 1897, in 
Grenn Bay, Wis. See history. 

Mr. Albion Green was for a number of years 
a well driller, many of the fine wells of the 
Green Bay Water System, standing as evidence 
of his work. He is at present a merchant, re¬ 
siding at Big Suamico. 


X 

114 NEAL AVALTER GREEN, second son of Nettie 
May Beach and Albion Green, born July 30, 1897, at 
Green Bay, Wis. Married May 23, 1921, at Green Bay 
to Hazel Edna Hansen, born July 27, 1897, daughter 
of Loren M. Hansen. 

The family resides at 833 Howard St. Green 
Bay, Wis. Clothing salesman and buyer of 
men’s furnishings. Entered the late war May 
1917, trained at Camp Douglass, Bat. E, 121st 
Field Artillery. Ordered to Camp Arthur, Wa¬ 
co, Tex., going from there to Camp Merritt, pro¬ 
ceeding to England, and thence to France. 
Armistice was signed before he was called to 
the firing line. Mustered out May, 1919. 


IX 


102 FRED ELL BROOKS BEACH, second son of 
Jeorge J. Beach and Adeline Tucker, born Nov. 10, 
L867, in Birmingham, Mich. Married 1st, March 6, 
1889, in Hurley, Wis., to Tessle Huntsinger, born Dec. 
9, 1871, at Menoninee, AVis., daughter of Chester and 
Margaret Huntsinger. She died Jan. 26, 1908. Married 
2nd, March 21, 1910, at McBain, AVis., to Mary Eliza¬ 
beth Leitcli, born Sept. 30, 1883, daughter of Richard 
and Ida Leitch. 


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Children of F. E. B. Beach and Tessie Huntsinger 

123 BONITA B. BEACH, born July 30, 1890, at Hur¬ 
ley, Wis. She died Oct. 9, 1913. 

124 WESLEY EUGENE BEACH, born Aug. 28, 1892, 
at Green Bay, Wis. See history. 

125 FERN H. BEACH, born Dec. 18, 1894, at Green 
Bay, Wis. See history. 

12(i HOWARD J. BEACH, born May 9, 1897, at Green 
Bay, Wis. A single man residing a portion of the 
time with his parents. 

Fred E. B. Beach took up the occupation of 
railway telegraph operator, but this work kept 
him rather close to his desk, and he longed for 
the freedom of the road service. He resided 
after his marriage for a time in Hurley, Wis., 
but later removed to Green Bay, and took serv¬ 
ice in the freight department as brakeman. He 
enjoyed his new work, and rose rapidly to the 
position of freight conductor, and now for a 
number of years holding preferential passenger 
runs. His headquarters and residence was 
Green Bay for a number of years, but for sev¬ 
eral years past he has resided in Milwaukee, 
Wis., at 1280, 34th St. He was always a lover 
of the great out of doors; enjoys fishing and 
hunting. 


X 


124 WESLEY EUGENE BEACH, oldest son of Fred 
E. B. Beach and Tessie Huntsinger, born Aug. 28, 
1892, at Green Bay, Wis. Married July 19, 1913, at 
Wausaukee, Wis., to Ethel May DeVlne, born Feb. 
17, 1893, at Hurley, Wis., daughter of Adam and 
Lois E. DeVine. 


CHILDREN 

143 HARRY EUGENE BEACH, born May 26, 1914, 
at Hurley, Wis. 

282 HAZEL MAE BEACH, born April 2, 1917, at 
Hurley, Wis. 

After their marriage this family settled in 
Ironwood, Michigan, across the state line from 
Hurley, Wis., where they now reside. W. E. 
Beach is an electrician by occupation. 


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X 


125 FERN H. BEACH, second daughter of Fred E. 
B. Beach and Tessie Huntsinger, born Dec. 18, 1894, 
at Green Bay, Wis. Married April 24, 1922, to Adam 
T. Kreuser, born Dec. 28, 1888, at Marshfield, Wis., son 
of Peter Kreuser. 

The family moved to Colorado, and are at 
present residing at 928 Pitkin Ave., Glenwood 
Springs, Colo. Early in 1923 they expect to 
move to their ranch seven miles northeast of 
Glenwood Springs. 

Adam, Kreuser, was a soldier in the late 
war. Enlisted Sept. 10, 1917, 1st Minnesota, 
later 135th Infy. Trained at Ft. Snelling, re¬ 
moved to Camp Cody, where he served on de¬ 
tached duty with the hospital corps till June, 
1918, when he was transferred over seas for re¬ 
placement. 

He was sent to the front at Chateau Thierry 
with the 125th Infy., 1st Battalion Scouts, with 
whom he served till the end of the war. Was 
five days in action at Chateau Thierry, ten days 
at Soissons; in the Argonne 21 days; on the 
Meuse two days when the armistice was signed. 
Received several minor wounds and was gassed 
twice in action. Joined the army of occupation 
till May, 1919. Discharged at Camp Douglas, 
Iowa, May 21, 1919. 


IX 

103 GEORGIANA BEACH, second daughter of 
George J. Beach and Adeline Tucker, born Sept. 18, 
1875, McPherson County, Kas. Married June 30, 1902, 
at Green Bay, Wis., to James Henry Willis, born 
Aug. 3. 1872, at Flintville, W'is., son of William and 
Martha Willis. 


CHILDREN 

287 JAMES J. WILLIS, born Feb. 15, 1907, at Green 
Bay, Wis. He died April 9, 1911. 

288 JOHN WILLIS, born April 20, 1908, at Green 
Bay, Wis. He died Aug. 20, 1908. 

This family resides at Green Bay, Wis. 

IX 

104 WALTER MAXWELL BEACH, third son of G. 
J. Beach and Adeline Tucker, born Aug. 4, 1877, in 


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McPherson Co., Kas., Married April G, 1910, at Bar- 
stow, Calif., to Matilda Anne Yost, born Jan. 25, 1882, 
at Winneconne, Wis., daughter of Peter and Anne 
Yost. She died in 1919 in California. 


CHILDREN 

99 BROWNINGTON MAXWELL BEACH, born 
Sept. 2G, 1911, Fruitvale, Calif. A young lad, now be¬ 
ing cared for at the home his aunt, Nellie Lynch, Mc¬ 
Allister, Wis. 

Walter M. Beach is a house-painter by occu¬ 
pation. After the death of his wife in California, 
he returned to Wisconsin, where he at present 
resides a portion of the time, and where his son 
is being cared for at the home of his sister, 
Nellie Lynch. 


IX 


105 NELLIE PEARL BEACH, youngest daughter of 
Geo. J. Beach and Adeline Tucker, born Nov. 11, 
1880, in McPherson, Kas. Married 1899, to William 
Lynch, born April 17, 1880, at Pittsfield, Wis., son of 
Matthew Lynch and Mary Lawler. 


CHILDREN 

127 LOYD JOHN LYNCH, born May 17, 1900, at 
Suamico. He died Sept 17, 1900. 

128 GEORGE MATTHEW LYNCH, born April 12, 
1905, at McAllister, Wis. 

129 FERN MARIE LYNCH, born July 12, 1906, at 
McAllister, Wis. 

130 ELEANOR GERTRUDE LYNCH, born Sept. 30, 
1908, at McAllister, Wis. 

131 BERNARD EDWARD LYNCH, born Oct. 14, 
1910, at McAllister, Wis. 

132 IVAN CHARLES LYNCH, born Dec. 12, 1912, at 
McAllister, Wis. 

133 MURIEL CLARE LYNCH, born Jan. 28, 1915, at 
McAllister, W r is. 

134 WALTER WILLIAM LYNCH, born July 1, 1917, 
at McAllister, Wis. He died Dec. 17, 1918. 

135 LAWRENCE LEON LYNCH, twin, born June 1, 
1920, at McAllister Wis. 

136 LAURA LAURAINE LYNCH, twin, born June 1, 
1920, at McAllister, Wis. 

Mr. William Lynch is a farmer. They settled 
in McAllister, Wis., where they now reside. 


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SECTION II 


FAMILIES OF MARTHA JANE BEACH- 
PAGE-NOLAND 

Second Daughter of 

JOSIAH HALL BEACH 


VIII 

50 MARTHA JANE BEACH, second daughter of 
Josiah Hall Beach and Jane Alamareaux, born Sept. 22, 
1841, at Balston Spa, New York, died Dec. 21, 1900, 
in Green Bay, Wis. Married 1st, to James B. Page, 
born March 28 1838, died Nov. 21, 18G3 son of Benj. 
Page, born June 6, 1813, who was the son of Daniel 
Page and Hinda Frost. Married 2nd, June 15, 1865, 
to David M. Noland born June 9, 1839, died April 5, 
1908. \ 

CHILDREN 

106 HARRY BEACH PAGE, born Dec. 14 1859, at 

Troy, Mich. See history. 

107 ELLIS ADELBERT NOLAND, born May 15, 
1806, Grant County, Wis. See history. 

108 GEORGE VALMER NOLAND, born July 10, 1868, 
at Forestville, Iowa. An unmarried man residing at 
Bennett, Idaho, where he owns a 640 acre cattle 
ranch, forty miles from nearest railroad. In early 
manhood he was a railway machinist working at dif¬ 
ferent times in Green Bay, Wis., Milwaukee, Wis., and 
Chicago, 111. He died Aug. 21, 1923. 

109 VORA ALBERT NOLAND, born Aug. 27, 1871. 
He died in babyhood. 

110 KATIE EDNA NOLAND, born June 13, 1875, 
at Forestville, Iowa. See history. 

She resided for a time at Troy, Mich., near 
Detroit. After the death of her husband in 1863 
she removed with her father and her brothers to 
Grant County, Wis., where she married D. M. 
Noland, and here her second son was born. 
She and her family accompanied her father and 
brother ,T. H. Beach to Forestville, Iowa, where 
they lived till the latter part of 1875, when the 
family removed to McPherson County, Kas. In 
1881 the entire family returned to Green Bay, 
Wis., where Mrs. Noland died. After the death 
of Martha .T. Noland, I). M. Noland removed 
to Pine, Idaho, where he was postmaster until 
the time of his death. 


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IX 

106 HARRY BEACH PAGE, oldest son of Martha 
J. Beach and James B. Page, born Dec. 14, 1859, at 
Troy, Mich. Married Oct. 10, 1893, to Florence Irey, 
born Nov. 30, 1868, daughter of Augustus Irey and 
Angeline Shock. 

CHILDREN 

115 GORDON BENJAMIN PAGE, born Sept. 11, 1895, 
at Detroit, Mich. He married Sept. 27, 1918, Velma 
Mitchell Clarke, born Oct. 17, 1895. Their children, 
Gordon Clarke Page, born April 26, 1919, in Berlin, 
N. J., Henry Milton Page, born April 14, 1921. Gordon 
B. Page served in the war April, 1917 to July, 1919, 
discharged as first class quartermaster. Family re¬ 
sides at 664 W. Palmer Ave., Detroit, Mich. 

116 DOROTHY ADELAIDE PAGE, born May 24, 
1899, in Detroit, Mich. She married March 19, 1921, 
Theodore Keen Thalen, and the family resides at 
355 E. Lawn Ave, Detroit. They have one son, Henry 
Page Thalen, born July 5, 1922. 

117 FLORENCE ARDELL PAGE and 

118 SARAH ALICE PAGE, twins, born March 4, 
1895. Both died young. 

Harry B. Page was brought lip with his 
grandparents on a farm at Troy, Mich. He 
graduated from the Pontiac High School taking 
up the fire insurance business as a life work. 
The family resides at 660 W. Palmer Aye., De¬ 
troit, Mich. 


IX 

107 ELLIS ADELBERT NOLAND, second son of 
Martha J. Beach and D. M. Noland, born May 15, 
1866, Grant County, Wis., near Cassville. Married at 
Green Bay, Wis., to Lila M. Bannister, born July 9, 
1869, daughter of Martin M. Bannister and Mable M. 
Sensetra. Lila M. Bannister is lineal descendant of 
Pres. James Monroe and of Col. Whitney of the Revo¬ 
lution, and at another point in her ancestry, of Pres, 
Zachary Taylor, and a Hessian Colonel who came 
over with William Penn. 


CHILDREN 

119 ELLIS ADELBERT NOLAND, born June 18, 
1888, at Green Bay, Wis. See history. 

120 EARL BANNISTER NOLAND born Sept 1, 1889, 
at Green Bay, Wis. See history. 

121 NAOMI C. NOLAND, born Aug. 15, 1894, at 

Green Bay, Wis. See history. 

122 RUTH MARIE NOLAND, born July 15, 1912, at 
St. Marie, Idaho. She resides with her parents. 


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Ellis A. Noland, as a young man, entered the 
service of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul 
Railway Company, in the machinist department, 
making his home at Green Bay, Wis., until 1908, 
when he sold out, moving to St. Marie, Idaho, 
where he continued service with the same com¬ 
pany. lie became interested in civic affairs 
and is president of the city council. In 1920 
was Democratic candidate for State Repre¬ 
sentative; and in 1922 was Democratic candi¬ 
date for State Senator in his district. He is 
president of the Men’s League of the Presby¬ 
terian church; past commander of the Masonic 
order and Knight Templar; also past High 
Priest of the Royal Arch Masons. 


X 


119 ELLIS ADELBERT NOLAND, Jr., oldest son of 
A. E. Noland and Lila Bannister, born June 18, 1888, 
at Green Bay, Wis. Married Sept. 26, 1916, in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y., to Florence Koch born Sept. 3, 1889, in 
Brooklyn, daughter of Paul Koch and Mary Schuh- 
man. 


CHILDREN 

140 RUTH MARIE NOLAND, born July 13, 1917, 

Queens, Long Island, N. Y. 

141 CLARE NOLAND, born May 2, 1920, Queens, 
Long Island, N. Y. 

142 FLORENCE NOLAND, born Oct. 2, 1921, Queens, 
Long Island, N. Y. 

After completing his education in the local 
schools he worked for a time with the Exchange 
Bank of Spokane, Wash., going from there to 
the Bank of California, San Francisco, where 
he remained until 1914, when he entered the 
employ of the R. II. Ingersoll Co., of New York 
City, (the dollar watch man). He graduated 
from the University School of Commerce, June 
1921, with the degree of B. C. S. He is now 
General Manager of the New Era Company, and 
resides at Jackson Avenue, Queens, Long Is¬ 
land. lie enlisted in the 2nd Officers Training 
Camp at Plattsburg, N. Y., from which he was 
commissioned 2nd Lieutenant of Infantry, in 
August, 1917. November, 1917, was transfer¬ 
red on detached service to Signal Corps Avi- 

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ation Section. Remained on duty at Kelly 
Field, San Antonio, Tex., till March, 1918, when 
he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant Air Ser¬ 
vice, and transferred to Ellington Field, Hous¬ 
ton, Tex., for machine gun instruction ; in May, 
1918, was transferred to Call Field, Witchita 
Falls, Tex., where he remained until honorably 
discharged in January, 1919. He took flying 
instruction and shortly after the signing of the 
armistice entered the Res. Mil. Aviator class. 


X 

120 EARL BANNISTER NOLAND, second son of E. 
A. Noland and Lila Bannister born Sept. 1, 1889, at 
Green Bay, Wis. Married March 3, 1912, to Sue E. 
Johnstone, daughter of John Bunyan Johnstone. 

CHILDREN 

96 MAXINE GRACE NOLAND, born Jan. 1, 1913, 
at St. Marie, Idaho. 

97 LILA CLARE NOLAND, born Feb. 2, 1915, at 
St. Marie, Idaho. 

98 JEAN LOUISE NOLAND, born July 29, 1920, 
at St. Marie, Idaho. 

Earl B. Noland engaged in mercantile busi¬ 
ness in St. Marie, Idaho. In 191G he was elect¬ 
ed sheriff of Benewah County, Idaho, which was 
during the great activities of the 1. W. W. His 
tactful control of serious situations won the 
confidence of the people. Near the close of his 
term he resigned to enlist in the army. On ac¬ 
count of serious epidemic of influenza he was 
detained in training camp at Moscow, Idaho, 
where he volunteered as nurse in hospital, and 
remained in that service until discharged at the 
close of the war, when he removed to Spokane, 
Wash., where he is at present travelling sales¬ 
man for Proctor Gamble Company, and resides 
at 704 So. Oak St. 


X 


121 NAOMI CLARE NOLAND, oldest daughter of E. 
A. Noland and Lila Bannister, born Aug. 15, 1896, at 
Green Bay, Wis. Married 1st, May 15 1914, to Arthur 
H. Liberty, St. Johnsburg, Vt., going to his parents’ 
home. This marriage proved unhappy, and in 1916 
she returned to her father’s home in St. Marie, bring- 


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ing her young son, Earl J. Liberty, with her and in 
June, 1918, was divorced, resuming her maiden name 
and retaining custody of her child. Married 2nd, Aug 
1922, to John B. Lewis, of Greenville, Mich. 

Children of Naomi Noland and John H. Liberty 

Son, Earl J. Liberty, born July, 1915 formally ad¬ 
opted by John B. Lewis, and name changed to 

95 EARL NOLAND LEWIS, born July, 1915, in Ver¬ 
mont. 

Naomi C. Noland entered the Domrosch 
School of Musical Art, New York City, in 1913. 
She entered the University of Idaho from which 
she graduated as Superior Public School Nurse 
in 1918. She then enlisted in the army as Red 
Cross Nurse, serving at Debarkation Hospital, 
Staten Island, N. Y., also in Women’s and Chil¬ 
dren’s Hospital, New York, also Henry IV Set¬ 
tlement, New York, and finally graduated from 
Walter Reid Hospital, Washington, D. C., June 
1921. She was discharged from army service, 
March, 1922, when she remarried, and moved to 
Greenville, Mich., where the family now reside. 
John B. Lewis is a rising attorney of promise 
of Greenville. 


IX 

110 KATIE EDNA NOLAND, known most of her life 
as Katherine Noland, only daughter of Martha J. 
Beach and D. M. Noland, born June 13, 1875 at Forest- 
ville, Iowa. Married Sept. 14, 1899, at Attica, Wis., 
to Louis Peterson, son of Peter Peterson and Johanna 
Vandenboomen. 


CHILDREN 

137 MIRIAM LOIS PETERSON, born 1900, in Green 
Bay, Wis., graduate from Green Bay High School. 
Married Sept. 12, 1922, at Milwaukee, Wis., to David 
Russell Chase, born July 12, 1900, at Milwaukee, Wis., 
son of William and Mary Chase. The family now re¬ 
sides at 194 Church St., Wauwatosa, Wis. 

138 ELLIS ADELBERT PETERSON, born 1903, in 
Green Bay, Wis. 

139 LUCILLE PETERSON, born 1908 in Green Bay, 
lVis. Reside with their parents. 

Louis Peterson is a railway engineer, work¬ 
ing out of Green Bay, where the family resides 
at 739-So. Quincey St. He is a member of the 
Masonic order, and brotherhood of railway en¬ 
gineers. Katherine Noland Peterson is active 


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in society, and a leader in the work of the Un¬ 
ion Congregational church to which she be¬ 
longs. She is interested in music; she is past 
worthy matron of Martha Washington Chapter, 
Eastern Star. 


SECTION III 

FAMILIES OF J. H. BEACH 
Second Son of 
JOSIAH HALL BEACH 


VIII 

51 JOSIAH HALL BEACH, youngest son of Josiai 
Hall Beach and Jane Alamareaux born Sept. 23, 1843, 
at Balston, N. Y., died Sept 22, 1914, at Pentwater, 
Mich., buried in Pentwater Cemetery, grave is marked 
by a massive granite monument to his memory. Cause 
of death, pernicious anemia brought on by loss of 
blood by nosebleed, while attending the fiftieth anni¬ 
versary of the Battle of Gettysburg the preceding 
year. Married March 3, 1866, at Detroit, Mich., to 
Abbie Taylor, born May 17, 1844, at Novi, Mich., 
daughter of John Gilman Taylor and Sarah (Boyd) 
Taylor. 


CHILDREN 

53 ELMER TAYLOR BEACH, born Dec. 10, 1866, 
Grant County, Wis. See history. 

54 ALVAH OWEN BEACH, born Oct. 18, 1868, at 
Forestville, Iowa. See history. 

55 MARTHA LEONA BEACH, born Jan. 2, 1871, at 
Forestville, Iowa. See history. 

56 HARRY ROMANS BEACH, born Feb. 11, 1873, 
at Forestville, Iowa. See history. 

57 ROY EUGENE BEACH born Sept. 29, 1875, 

McPherson County, Kas. See history. 

58 DAVID ORVAL BEACH, born Sept. 6, 1882, at 
McPherson County, Kas. See history. 

As a boy of eighteen J. H. Beach volunteer¬ 
ed and enlisted as a private in Co. I, 1st Michi¬ 
gan Light Artillery, from Novi, Mich., Aug. 26, 
1862, and served three years, when he was dis¬ 
charged as first sergeant of his company. He 
saw active service throughout Gen. Thomas’s 
campaign in Tennessee, leading up to Atlanta. 
He was then transferred to the east, Army of 





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the Potomac and participated in the Battle of 
Gettysburg, and following campaigns. He re¬ 
turned without a scratch, though always a suf¬ 
ferer from chronic bowel complaint. At his 
discharge he returned to Novi and married, go¬ 
ing to Grant County, Wis. Here his oldest son 
was born. In 18G7 he accompanied his father, 
and sister and their families to Forestville, 
Iowa, where he set up a general blacksmith 
business, in company with his father. Here the 
family resided till 1872. 

In the latter part of 1872 the lands of Kan¬ 
sas and the plains was cleared of Indians and 
surveyed, after which it was thrown open to 
settlement. Father always hankered for the 
soil, and in 1873 he decided to become a Kansas 
pioneer, and went overland by covered wagon 
in company with others, driving their cattle, 
and camping by the way, finally homesteading 
100 acres in Hays Township, McPherson County, 
where he saw many hardships incident to 
pioneering, including the historical visitation ol 
grasshoppers which destroyed their entire crop 
the first year. He was called back to Iowa at 
the death of his father in 1878, finally dispos¬ 
ing of his farm about 1S80, when the family set¬ 
tled in the town of Crystal Valley, Oceana 
County, Michigan, where the family grew up, 
and where he remained until his retirement 
about 1905, when he purchased a home in Pent- 
water, Michigan and died there. 

J. H. Beach was always an active member of 
the Baptist church, and a deacon for many 
years. His estate of some $9,000 was probated 
in Hart, Elmer T. Beach being administrator. 
The widow still survives, residing a portion of 
the time at her home in Pent water, dividing 
the remaining time between the homes of her 
children. 


IX 

53 ELMER TAYLOR BEACH, oldest son of J. H. 
Beach, born Dec. 10, 1800, near Cassville, Grant Co., 
Wis. Married June 22, 1005, to Laura L. Cargill, oldest 
daughter of James Cargill and Loretta (Weissler) 


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Whisler, township of Weare, Oceana County, Mich. 
James Cargill is son of David Cargill of Cedar Springs, 
Mich., who was son of David Cargill, who emigrated 
into Nassaugua, Twp., Canada, from Malandobar 
Farm, near Bush Mills, county Antrim, Ireland, hav¬ 
ing lived in Ireland for some time, his family having 
at an earlier date emigrated into Ireland from Scot¬ 
land. These families are known to be lineal descen¬ 
dants of Preacher Donald Cargill, of Scotland, who 
was hanged and quartered during the reformation. 

CHILDREN 

59 HUGH ELBERT BEACH, born March 7, 1907, 
Kalamazoo, Mich. 

GO HAROLD ELMER BEACH, born Jan. 18, 1909, 
Kalamazoo, Mich. 

61 PAUL EUGENE BEACH, born April 24, 1912, 
Kalamazoo, Mich. 

62 JEROME JOSIAH BEACH, born Sept. 15, 1913, 
Kalamazoo, Mich. 

63 WINSTON BEACH, born 1916 (stillborn). 

64 LEO CARGILL BEACH, born April 4, 1920, 

Kalamazoo, Mich. 

All attending East Avenue school, Kalamazoo. 

Elmer T. Beach was reared on a farm until 
maturity. His education up to the age of 
twenty-one was secured in the little school 
house half a mile from his father’s door. The 
next ten years w T as spent in teaching school, 
and attending Ferris Institute at Big Rapids. 
About 1897 he took up commercial studies in 
the Ferris Institute, which included commercial 
law, banking, general bookkeeping, stenography 
and typewriting, which course was nearing com¬ 
pletion in April, 1898, at the outbreak of the 
war with Spain. 

He volunteered, and enlisted at Island Lake, 
Mich., on May 16, 1898, as a private in Co. A, 
34th Mich. Vol. Inf., leaving Island Lake with 
his regiment early in June, 1898. Thirty-six 
hours after reaching Camp Alger, near Wash¬ 
ington, D. C., he w r as detached, as clerk of the 
recruiting squad for the first battalion, in com¬ 
mand of Lieut. Charles N. Milner, of Co. A, and 
returned with that detachment to Michigan, re¬ 
maining on detached duty till the close of the 
war. His regiment, in the meantime, was or¬ 
dered to Cuba, where it served as support to 
the firing lines at El Caney, Cuba, which re¬ 
turned to the States and was furloughed from 


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Montauck Point. Mr. Beach rejoined his com¬ 
pany in December, 1898, at Big Rapids, for 
muster out. 

He then reentered school, and graduated in 
June following, entering commercial life, as 
bookkeeper and accountant with the Marble 
Arms & Mfg. Co., of Gladstone, Mich. About 
190G removing with his wife to Kalamazoo, 
Mich., where he has since been engaged. He 
was for about seven years, chief accountant 
and Secretary of the Shakespeare Company, and 
the past' seven years, serving as credit man, 
with Ihling Brothers Everard Company, manu¬ 
facturers of Lodge Regalia and uniforms, and 
conducting a general printing business. 

He is a member of Richard Westnedge Camp, 
No. 1G, United Spanish War Veterans, and re¬ 
sides at 634 Trimble Ave. 

IX 

54 ALVAH OWEN BEACH, second son of J. H. 
Beach and Abbie Taylor, born Oct. 18, 1868, at Forest- 
ville, Iowa. Married at Weare Twp., Oceana Co., Mich., 
to Maude Evelyn Purdy, born Dec. 24, 1869, at Jones- 
ville, Mich., daughter of William H. Purdy and Ellen 
Tuller. 


CHILDREN 

EDITH ELLEN BEACH, born Oct. 18, 1905, at Hart, 
Mich. She died Oct. 23, 1905. 

Alvah Owen Beach was a farmer in early 
life. After moving into the village of Hart he 
was engaged for a time in the wholesale fruit 
and produce business. Later lie engaged in the 
grocery business in Hart, until about the year 
1913, when he removed to Orange, California. 
He later removed to Van Nuys, where he still 
resides and is engaged as mill-wright in charge 
of a large canning factory at that point. He 
has always been active in church work, and is 
a Deacon of the Baptist church in Van Nuys. 

IX 

55 MARTHA LEONA BEACH, known as Mattie 
Beach, only daughter of J. H. Beach and Ab¬ 
bie Taylor, born Jan. 2, 1871, in Forestville, Iowa. 
Married Aug. 7, 1900, at Hart, Mich., to E. D. Hughes, 
son of William and Lurie Hughes. William Hughes 
was born in Ireland. 


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This family has no children. 

Mattie Beach, after finishing her common 
school education in the country school, attended 
the Ferris Institute, specializing in piano mu¬ 
sic. After finishing her musical education, and 
graduating from the Ferris Institute, she be¬ 
came a music teacher in Oceana county. Her 
work as instructor was conducted with marked 
ability and success, and she was known as an 
accomplished pianist. Her career in this di¬ 
rection was cut off by her marriage, which took 
place in 1900. In 1922 the family removed to 
Lansing, Mich., where they reside at 1123 West 
Allegan St. Mrs. Hughes has always been active 
in the Baptist church, and all church work. E. 
D. Hughes was a soldier of the war with Spain, 
having served in Co. A, 35th Mich. Vol. Inf. 


IX 


56 HARRY ROMANE BEACH third son of J. H. 
Beach and Abbie Taylor, born Feb. 11, 1873, at Forest- 
ville, Iowa. Married Oct. 15, 1913, at Hart, Mich., to 
Eva May Wightman, born Oct. 30, 1882 in Shell Rock, 
Iowa, daughter of Elias Wightman and Mary Granger. 

CHILDREN 

68 DOROTHY LEONA BEACH, born Jan. 2, 1916, 
at Crystal Valley, Mich. 

69 GERALD HALL BEACH, born Sept. 3, 1917, at 
Crystal Valley, Mich. 

70 NORMAN LEROY BEACH, born Sept. 14, 1921, 
at Crystal Valley, Mich. 

Harry R. Beach is a farmer. After his mar¬ 
riage he settled upon the old farm which was 
his father’s, having purchased it some time be¬ 
fore. Here the family resides, Walkerville, R. 
F. D., Mich., and here his children were born. 
Mr. Beach is an active member of the Baptist 
church at Crystal Valley, a Deacon, and active 
Sunday School worker, and is known as a man 
of considerable weight in the community where 
he lives. 


IX 

57 ROY EUGENE BEACH, fourth son of J. H. 
Beach and Abbie Taylor, born Sept. 29, 1875, Hays 
Township, McPherson County, Kan., in a Kansas sod 
house. Married 1898, in Crystal Valley, Mich., to Julia 


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Adora Brewster, born Sept. 28, 1880, daughter of Ice¬ 
land Cyrenus Brewster, a son of Cyrenus Brewster, 
eighth in direct line of descent from Elder Brewster, 
of the May Flower. She died in July, 1923, from a 
blood clot incident to an operation performed six 
days before. 


CHILDREN 

71 THELMA VICTORIA BEACH, born July 23, 1899, 
at Crystal Valley, Mich. She died 1899. 

72 MAXINE LILLIAN BEACH, born Oct. 25, 1910, 
at Crystal Falls, Mich. Now attending high school. 

R. Eugene Beach secured his education in 
the common schools of Oceana County, Mich. 
He became a school teacher after reaching 21 
and taught school for a number of years. About 
1911 he took up the study of law, and removed 
to Hammond, Ind., where he continued his law 
work in the Lincoln-Jefferson School of Law, 
from which he graduated and was admitted to 
the Supreme Court of Indiana. He practiced 
law for a time in Hammond, but on the out¬ 
break of the World War he accepted employ¬ 
ment in the car shops of Hammond, engaged on 
Government work, where he served till the end 
of the war. In 1920 he sold out in Hammond, 
and removed with his family to Van Nuys, Cali¬ 
fornia, where he now resides. He is a singer 
of considerable local repute; an active member 
of the Masonic fraternity; active in church 
work, and at present employed as warehouse 
foreman in a large canning factory at Van 
Nuys. 


IX 

58 REV. DAVID ORVAL BEACH, youngest son of 
J. H. Beach and Abbie Taylor, born Sept. 6, 1882, in 
Hays Township, McPherson Co., Kas. Married in 
1903, at Crystal Valley, Mich., to Clara Etta Wever, 
born Dec. 22, 1886, in Crystal Valley, Mich., daughter 
of Hiram Wever and Mary Elizabeth Corner. 

CHILDREN 

65 STANLEY EUGENE BEACH, born Feb. 27, 1905, 
in Crystal Valley, Mich. 

A young man now attending Houghton 
Seminary, Houghton, N. Y., preparing for the 
ministry and for missionary work abroad. 

66 FREEDA ELAINE BEACH, born May 27, 1920, 
at Kart, Mich. 


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D. O. Beach attended the public schools of 
Oceana County, until reaching his majority, 
lie married and settled on a farm in Crystal 
^ alley, following that occupation for several 
years. He removed to Williamston, Mich., 
where he joined the Wesleyan Methodist church 
and took up the work of preparing for the 
ministry. He was given an active charge at 
Hastings, Mich., in 1920, and remains at that 
point with good success. Two years more of 
preparatory work will fit him for full ordination 
in the Wesleyan faith. 

The family resides at 401 East State Road, 
Hastings, Mich. 


SECTION IV 

FAMILIES OF APOLLOS WRIGHT BEACH 

Son of 

APOLLOS BEACH—1778 


VII 

40 APOLLOS WRIGHT BEACH, oldest son of Ap- 
ollos Beach, born Nov. 20, 1807, in Montague, Mass., 
died March 2, 1885, in New Britain, Conn. Married 
Aug. 12, 1832, to Mary Osgood, born April 23, 1804, 
died Sept. 18, 1865. 

CHILDREN 

179 MARTHA ELIZABETH BEACH, born May 29, 
1836. She died a baby. 

180 SARAH JANE BEACH, born Sept. 30, 1838, at 
New Britain. She married Ethel North, and died 
without issue July 16, 1916. 

181 JEREMIAH OSGOOD BEACH born Oct. 30, 1841, 
in New Britain, Conn. See history. 

182 SOPHIA WRIGHT BEACH, born Aug. 15, 1S47, 
in New Britain, Conn. She married Comfort Day 
Sweet, born Nov. 9, 1841, and now resides at Win- 
sted, Conn. Their only child, Howard Sweet died in 
babyhood. 

Apollos Wright Beach was a cooper by trade. 
He resided in Montague, Mass., until he shipped 
as a ship’s cooper and shipwright, on a whal- 





ing vessel out of Boston. It is related by Sophia 
Wright Beach, in letters to Howard D. Beach 
in 1922, that Apollos Wright Beach, her father, 
and Mary Osgood, her mother, were in atten¬ 
dance at the marriage of Josiah Hall Beach 
and Sophia Alexander at the town of Middle- 
town, Conn., and that on their return to New 
Britain, Apollos W. and Mary Osgood were mar¬ 
ried, that same afternoon. The home of Mary 
Osgood was in New Britain, and that became 
the home town and headquarters of Apollos 
Wright Beach. His entire family was born in 
New Britain, and he himself died and is buried 
in New Britain. 


VIII 

181 JEREMIAH OSGOOD BEACH, only son of Apol¬ 
los W. Beach and Mary Osgood, born Oct. 30, 1841, in 
New Britain, Conn. Married 1st, to Caroline Louisa 
Dyson, born in Lockwood, England, Aug. 16, 1845. 
She died in New' Britain, Feb. 22, 1880. Married 2nd, 
June 6, 1883, at Benzonia, Mich., to Charlotte P. 

Adams, of Manistee, Mich., born May 23, 1848, daugh¬ 
ter of Amos and Charlotte Adams, Oberlin College 
graduates, missionaries to the Indians of Minnesota. 
She died April 30, 1918. 


CHILDREN 

251 HOWARD DWIGHT BEACH, born March 21, 
1867, in New Britain, Conn. See history. 

252 ALFRED WALTER BEACH, born, May 14, 1869, 
in New Britain, Conn. He died age ten. 

253 MARY OSGOOD BEACH, born Feb. 13, 1871, in 

New Britain, Conn. She married, Nov. 28, 1899, 

Dewitt Clinton French, born April 5, 1870, son of Or¬ 
ton B. French and Jane R. French. The family set¬ 
tled at Valley Cottage, New York, w r here Mr. French 
owns a large farm. They have no children. 

254 EDWARD BAMFORTH BEACH, born June 2, 
1874, in New Britain, Conn. See history. 

255 RUTH NORTH BEACH, born May 24, 1876, in 
New' Britain, Conn. Unmarried and resides with her 
father at 16 Osgood ,\ve., New Britain, Conn. After 
completing her education in the high school, she 
entered and graduated from a business college. She 
is a stenographer and office woman; an active member 
of the Baptist church. 

256 CHARLES ADAMS BEACH, born 1884. He died 
young. 

257 BESSIE CATHERINE BEACH, born Dec. 3, 
1887, in New Britain, Conn. See history. 

Jeremiah Osgood Beach was educated in the 
schools of New Britain, Conn. Arriving at inan- 


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liood he took up the skilled work of machinist, 
following that occupation most of his life. Hav¬ 
ing lost his wife in 1918, he resides with his 
daughter Ruth at their home, 16 Osgood Ave., 
New Britain, Conn. Mr. Beach, though past 
eighty years of age, is as active and sprightly 
as many men in their sixties. He is known as 
a kindly neighbor, a man of worth in the com¬ 
munity, and is an active member of the Baptist 
church. 


IX 

251 HOWARD DWIGHT BEACH, oldest son of J. O. 
Beach and Caroline Dyson, born March 21, 1867 in 
New Britain, Conn. Married in 1892 to Catherine 
Margaret Lobstein, born Dec. 21, 1870, in Buffalo, N. 
Y., daughter of Frederick William Lobstein of Alsace 
and Mary Frances Lowe, of Detroit, Mich. 


CHILDREN 

275 MARGARET CAROLINE BEACH born Feb. 27, 
1899 in Buffalo, N. Y. She is unmarried and resides 
with her parents in Buffalo. After graduation from 
the high school she took up other educational work, 
particularly music, and is an accomplished musician, 
working in her father’s studio in Buffalo. 

Howard Dwight Beach received his earl? 
education in the high schools of New Britain, 
Conn., as a young man of seventeen, he removed 
to Buffalo, N. Y., where he secured work in the 
photographic studio of Andrew Simson. He 
gave close attention to his chosen profession, 
and in 1896 he purchased half interest in the 
business from Mr. Simson, and four years 
thereafter he purchased the remainder, continu¬ 
ing the business alone. In 1908, he purchased 
his present large and commodious studio and 
residence, a massive structure located at 469 
Virginia St., Buffalo. Mr. Beach is a very suc¬ 
cessful artistic photographer. He was elected 
president of the Prof. Photographers’ Associa¬ 
tion of New York in 1913. In 1920, he was 
elected president of the Photographers’ Asso¬ 
ciation of America, and enjoys a commanding 
position in his profession. 

About 1887 he took up drawing in the Buf¬ 
falo Art School, primarily as an aid to him in 
his photographic work. So well has he pro- 


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gressed in his artistic work that much favor¬ 
able comment is given. He is deeply interested 
in his work and is becoming known as an artist 
of more than passing merit, though still a 
young man. He is active in social circles; a 
member of Ancient Land Mark Lodge, F. & A. 
M.; and a Knight Templar. 


IX 

254 EDWARD BAMFORTH BEACH, third son of J. 
O. Beach and Caroline Dyson, born June 2, 1874, at 
New Britain, Conn. Married 1st, Oct. 19, 1898, to 
Ada Roberts, born Feb. 13, 1876, at Waldren, N. Y., 
daughter of John Roberts, born in England. She 
died July 21, 1913. Married 2nd, Dec. 30, 1917, to 
Laura Comstock, of Winsted, Conn., born March 23, 
1887, in Warren, Conn., daughter of Justus Sackett 
Comstock, born Feb. 11, 1850. 


CHILDREN 

276 FREDERICK ROBERTS BEACH, born March 
20, 1901, in New Britain, Conn. 

277 THEODORE EDWARD BEACH, born May 16, 
1902, in New Britain, Conn. 

.278 HOWARD ALFRED BEACH, born Aug. 13, 1904, 
in New Britain, Conn. 

All young men are attending high school, or work¬ 
ing in offices in New Britain, where they reside with 
their parents. 

279 JUSTUS SACKETT BEACH, born Oct. 31, 1920, 
in New Haven, Conn. 

Edward B. Beach received his education in 
the schools of New Britain. Arriving at man¬ 
hood he took up the occupation of machinist, 
which he has since followed. He resides at 
No. 5 Osgood Ave., New Britain, Conn., where 
he is known as a citizen of substantial value 
to the community where he resides. 


IX 

257 BESSIE CATHERINE BEACH, third daughter 
of J. O. Beach and Charlotte Adams born Dec. 3, 
1887, in New Britain, Conn. Married June 13, 1914, 
to Eugene Earnest Dyson, born Nov. 5, 1888, son of 
John B. Dyson, born in Lockwood, England. 


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CHILDREN 

280 JOHN BEACH DYSON, born Mar. 6, 1915, in 
Beverly, Mass. 

281 CHARLES ERNEST DYSON, born Dec. 18, 
1919, in New Britain, Conn. 

Bessie Catherine Beach, after completing her 
education in the New Britain schools, married, 
and the family for a time resided at Beverly, 
Mass. Later removed to New Britain, Conn., 
where they now reside at 275 Carlton St. Mr. 
Dyson is a draughtsman by occupation. 


SECTION V 

FAMILIES OF CHLOE BEACH BARNES 
Second Daughter of 
APOLLOS BEACH-1778 


43 CHLOE BEACH, second daughter of Apollos 
Beach and Sally Wright, born Oct. 5, 1812, in North- 
field, Mass. Died July 15, 1887, in Atchison, Kas. 
Married Sept. 27, 1835, at Middletown, Conn, to Reu¬ 
ben Curtis Barnes, born Oct. 31, 1814, in Middle- 
town. He died Feb. 7, 1903, in Atchison, Kas. 


CHILDREN 

183 SARAH WRIGHT BARNES, born Oct. 11, 1836, 
at Middletown, Conn. She died Dec. 5, 1836. 

184 REUBEN APOLLOS BARNES born July 25, 
1840, in New Brunswick, N. J. He died July 27, 1845. 

185 JOHN COOKSON BARNES, born June 5, 1842, 
New Brunswick, N. J., He died in 1856. 

186 WILLIAM CHAUNCEY BARNES, born Aug. 5, 
1845, New York City. See history. 

187 FRANCENA CHLOE BARNES, born Oct. 22, 
1849, at Burnt Hills, N. Y. See history. 

188 SUSAN STEVENS BARNES, born July 31, 1853, 
Lynn, Mass. She died in 1857. 

There was also an adopted daughter 

ANN ELIZA BARNES, born July 10, 1837. She 
died July 26, 1911. 

Reuben Barnes, before coming west, was de¬ 
signer and manufacturer of the first machine 


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wall paper made in the United States. He at 
one time owned and operated plants at New 
Brunswick, N. J., Brooklyn, N. Y., Chelsea, 
Mass., and Roxbury, Mass. 

About the year 1857, after severe financial 
reverses, the family decided to go west. The 
trip from St. Louis to Atchison was by boat. 
The family suffered much from pioneering, and 
particularly during the period of the Civil war. 
About the year 1873, they were keeping a hotel 
in Atchison, Kas., at a time when my father, J. 
H. Beach, one of her nephews, passed through 
Atchison, on his way overland to Kansas. A 
stop for a short visit was made w r ith them on 
the w r ay. In later years Reuben Barnes was a 
florist, but this business was totally destroyed 
by a terrific hail storm in 1887. 


VIII 

186 WILLIAM CHAUNCEY BARNES, third son of 
Chloe Beach and Reuben Barnes, born Aug. 5, 1845, 
in New York City. Died March 19, 1917, in Oakland, 
Calif. Married May 27, 1868, to Mary Elizabeth Wise, 
born Sept. 22, 1848, at Maysville, Ky. She died April 
23, 1919. 


CHILDREN 

289 ELMER WISE BARNES, born June 30, 1869, 

at Atchison, Kas. See history. 

290 JAMES T. BARNES, born Nov. 11, 1872. 

291 MAUDE BARNES, born June 26, 1876. 

292 CARRIE BARNES, born Nov. 21, 1871. 

All these children died young. 

293 WILLIAM HOLLAND BARNES, born Sept. 12, 

1882. He married June 8, 1910, at Oakland, Calif., 
Edna Garner, born Nov. 16, 1884, Modesto, Calif., 

daughter of Monroe Garner and Annie Garner. There 
are no children. Mr. Barnes went to California when 
quite young with his father, and has always resided 
there. His present residence is No. 2468 Peralta Ave., 
in the Fruitvale District of Oakland, Calif. 

William Chauncey Barnes was a newspaper 
man. At the outbreak of the Rebellion he joined 
Kansas Volunteers, Co. A, 5tli Cavalry and 
served during the war. When President Lin¬ 
coln was assassinated he helped to guard the 
jail in Washington where the conspirators were 
confined. He was chief of the Atchison fire de¬ 
partment for a great many years, and, after he 


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removed to Oakland, Calif., lie was employed 
in the Oakland fire department, and, after many 
years of service, retired on pension. He died 
and is buried in Oakland. 

IX 

289 ELMER WISE BARNES, oldest son of Wm. C. 
Barnes and Elizabeth Wise, born June 30, 1869, in 
Atchison, Kas. Married 1st, Oct. 27, 1896, to Cath¬ 
erine A. Sexsmith. Married 2nd, Nov. 10, 1918, to 
Elaine G. C. Brand. 


CHILDREN 

346 MARJORIE ELEANOR BARNES, born March 
10, 1898, in Oakland, Calif. She married Sept. 24, 1917, 
Lewis S. Wood at San Jose, Calif., born July 18, 
1893, at Hollister, Calif., son of Lewis Scott Wood 
and Rose Araminta Ford. They have one child, Rose 
Catherine Wood, born Sept. 16, 1920, at San Diego, 
Calif. This family resides in San Diego, Calif., 2269 
State St. 

347 ELMER GEORGE BARNES, born June 14, 1901, 
in Oakland, California. 

348 RUTH KATHRYN BARNES, born March 8, 1903, 
in Oakland, Calif. She married Dec. 1, 1920, Elmer 
Charles Maynes, born March 8, 1900, at San Fran¬ 
cisco, Calif., son of John Lendron Maynes and Hattie 
Josephine Maynes. This family settled in San Jose, 
2alif., and now reside there, R. C. Box 281. 

J49 HOWARD BARNES, born May 10, 1908, in Oak¬ 
land, Calif. 

350 HELEN ELIZABETH BARNES, born Feb. 5, 
1911, in Oakland, Calif. 

Elmer W. Barnes came to Oakland early witli 
his father, and here he grew up. He took up 
the occupation of die sinker, and engraver, 
making a specialty of wood cuts for catalog 
work. The family resides now in Oakland, at 
225 Athol Avenue. 


VIII 

187 FRANCENA CHLOE BARNES, second daughter 
of Chloe Beach and Reuben Barnes, born Oct. 22, 1849, 
in Burnt Hills, N. Y. Married Sept. 21, 1865, to 
Joseph Avery Ham,'born Oct. 1, 1834, at Muses Mills, 
Fleming Co., Ky. He died March 5, 1910, at St. Louis, 
Mo. 


CHILDREN 

294 WILLIAM JOSEPH HAM, born Jan. 3, 1867, at 
Rushville, Mo. See history. 


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295 CHARLES CURTIS HAM, born March 19, 1869, 
at Atchison, Kas. See history. 

296 GEORGE WASHINGTON HAM, born Aug. 25, 
1871, in Atchison, Kas. He married, July 17, 1893, to 
Ella McFadden at Atchison. This marriage proved 
unhappy and they have been divorced. He may at 
present be found c/o Carl Fischer Lbr. Co., Walton, 
Oregon. 

297 LINLEY JOHN HAM, born Oct. 20, 1873, at 
Atchison, Kas. See history. 

298 EDWARD GERALD HAM, born April 17, 1877, 
at Atchison, Kas. See history. 

299 NELLIE BEACH HAM, born Nov. 12, 1879, at 
Atchison, Kas. See history. 

This family settled first at Rushville, Mo. 
Mr. Ham was engaged in mercantile business at 
different times in Rushville, Mo., Hainsville, 
Mo., Atchison, Kas. The store at Atchison 
was mainly concerned in supplying freighters 
for their trips across the plains. In later years 
he retired, and was residing in St. Louis at the 
time of his death. Francena Chloe Barnes still 
resides in Atchison. 


IX 

294 WILLIAM JOSEPH HAM, oldest son of Fran¬ 
cena Barnes and Joseph Ham, born Jan. 3, 1867, in 
Rushville, Mo. Married Feb. 24, 1897, at St. Louis, 
Mo., to Nellie Hogan. 

CHILDREN 

351 WILLIAM CLINTON HAM, born Jan. 10, 1898, 
at St. Louis, Mo. He married April 26, 1921, Etta 
May Brown, and the family resides in Creve Coeur, 
Mo. He is a graduate of the Physicians and Surgeons 
College of St. Louis, 1923. 

352 JOHN STANLEY HAM, born Jan. 9, 1903 at 
Creve Coeur, Mo. He married Nov. 5, 1921, Kath¬ 
ryn Bolton Jenkins, and the family resides at Creve 
Coeur, Mo. They have one daughter, Betty June Ham, 
born Dec. 10, 1922, at Creve Coeur, Mo. 

353 NELLIE MAURINE HAM, born Sept. 28, 1904, 
at Creve Coeur, Mo. 

354 LINLEY DAVID HAM, born Sept. 2, 1906, at 
Creve Coeur, Mo. A sophomore at Clayton High. 

355 RUTH ORPAH HAM, born Sept. 8, 1907, at 

Creve Coeur, Mo. A freshman at Clayton High. 

356 DOROTHY GERALDINE HAM, born Feb. 10, 
1909, at Creve Coeur, Mo. 

357 CHARLES EDWARD LOGAN HAM, born March 
12, 1915, at Creve Coeur, Mo. 


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About 1000 Dr. Ham settled in Creve Coeur, 
Mo., where he still resides, P.O. Box 8. He is a 
graduate of Physicians and Surgeons College 
of St. Louis, Mo., class 1898, and is a practicing 
physician in Creve Coeur. 


IX 

295 CHARLES CURTIS HAM, second son of Francena 
Barnes and Joseph Avery, born March 19, 1869, in Atch¬ 
ison, Kas. Married Nov. 5, 1901, to Jennie DeWitt, 
Atchison, Kas. 

CHILDREN 

358 FRANCES ELIZABETH HAM, born Sept. 15, 
1904, at Atchison, Kas. She died May 17, 1920, at 
Atchison. 

Charles C. Ham took employment with the 
Missouri Pacific Railway Co., as messenger boy. 
He was advanced to the responsible position of 
agent, and after serving the company for thirty- 
eight years, is now retired on a pension. The 
family resides in Atchison at 620 N. Third St. 

IX 


297 LINLEY JOHN HAM, fourth son of Francena 
Barnes and Joseph Ham, born Oct. 20, 1873, in Atch¬ 
ison, Kas. Married July 2, 1896, to Effidel Harned, of 
Atchison, Kas. 

CHILDREN 

359 LAURA FRANCENA HAM, born June 18, 1897, 
in Atchison, Kas. She married Jan. 4, 1918, Fred 
Raymond Jones and reside in Atchison. They have 
one daughter, Laura Lineff Jones, born Sept. 18, 1920, 
in Atchison. 

360 EDNA JUANITA HAM, born June 5, 1908, at 
Atchison, Kas. 

361 CHARLES LARKIN HAM, born March 4, 1910, 
in Atchison, Kas. 

362 LINLEY JOSEPH HAM, born Nov. 7, 1912, at 
Atchison, Kas. 

363 CHESTER LINDELL HAM, born June 28, 1914, 
in Atchison, Kas. 

Linley J. Ham took employment with the 
Missouri Pacific Railway Co. He is at present 
O. S. & D. Clerk. He was a member of the city 
council of Atchison for a few years; belongs to 
the Mason and Odd Fellow Lodges. The family 
resides at 722 S. Street, Atchison, Kas. 


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IX 



298 EDWARD GERALD HAM, fifth son of Francena 
Barnes and Joseph A. Ham, born April 17, 1877, in 
Atchison, Kas. Married Oct. 16, 1900, to Vida Lucy 
Coulter. 


CHILDREN 

364 EDWARD ALONZO HAM, born Dec. 7, 1901, at 
Creve Coeur, Mo. He married Sept. 4, 1919, to Ellen 
Mary Cookley at Chicago, Ill. The family now re¬ 
side in Toledo, Oregon. He enlisted in the U. S. Navy 
Jan. 12, 1919, and spent nine months at Great Lakes 
Navy School. 

365 GEORGE AVERY HAM, born June 7, 1903, at 
St. Louis, Mo. 

366 RICHARD COULTER HAM, born Feb. 24, 1905, 
at St. Louis, Mo. He is now in the Philippine Is¬ 
lands, enlisted April 19, 1922, for three years, Reg. 
Army, Co. C. 31st Infy. 

367 NELLIE FRANCENA HAM, born Nov. 5, 1906, 
at St. Louis, Mo. 

368 ALICE LUCY HAM, born Dec. 11, 1909. She died 
Jan. 6, 1910. 

369 EUNICE MAY HAM, born Jan. 9, 1911, at St. 
Louis, Mo. 

E. C. Ham took a two years’ course in Physi¬ 
cians and Surgeons Med. School at St. Louis. 
Is also graduate of Atchison High. He enlisted 
and served eight months in Co. L, 22nd Kas. 
Vol. Infy. in the war with Spain. Removed to 
Toledo, Oregon, where family now reside. 


IX 

299 NELLIE BEACH HAM, only daughter of Fran¬ 
cena Barnes and Joseph A. Ham, born Nov. 12, 1879, 
in Atchison, Kas. Married July 3, 1901 in Atchison, 
to Larkin Niley Martin. 


CHILDREN 

370 DOROTHY NELL MARTIN, born Jan. 5, 1914, 
at Atchison, Kas. 

371 LARKIN DANIEL MARTIN, born Feb. 18, 1917, 
at Atchison, Kas. 

Nellie Beach (Martin) is a graduate of Atch¬ 
ison High, class of 1898. After her marriage 
the family settled in Atchison, where Mr. Mar¬ 
tin is a newspaper editor and publisher. The 
family resides at 524 Q Street. 


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At the outbreak of the war with Spain, Mr. 
Martin became a member of Co. I, 1st Terri¬ 
torial Vol. Inf., and served through the war. 
He is a 32nd degree Mason; K. T. and Shriner, 
and District Deputy Grand Master of Kansas, 
also an Odd Fellow. He was a member of the 
city council of Atchison two years, and this 
family occupies a position of some importance 
in the community where they reside. 


SECTION VI 

FAMILIES OF DAVID M. BEACH 
Fourth Son of 
APOLLOS BEACH—1778 

VII 

45 DAVID M. BEACH, fourth son of Apollos Beach, 
born Feb. 9, 1817, in Northfleld, Mass. Died March, 
6, 1863, in a hospital in North Carolina of blood poison¬ 
ing contracted from flea bites. Married 1836, to Amelia 
Stevens, daughter of Clarissa Stevens, born May 2. 
She died Oct. 1875. 


CHILDREN 

191 ANGELINE JANE BEACH, born July 14, 1837, 
at Glover, Vt. See history. 

192 APOLLOS BEACH, born March 15, 1839, at 

Glover, Vt. See history. 

193 REUBEN H. BEACH, born Oct. 4, 1853, in North- 
field, Mass. He was a railway brakeman, and was 
killed April 20, 1879, in Hoosac Tunnel. He left a 
wife and one daughter, Jennie E. (Hoose) in Bridge¬ 
port, Conn. The daughter married and lived at last 
accounts at Cleveland, Ohio. 

194 DAVID MARTIN BEACH born 1844, in North- 
field, Mass. He died at the age of 16 years. 

195 JOSEPHINE BEACH, born May 7, 1846, in Wen¬ 
dell, Mass. See histories. 

196 ELWIN CHAUNCEY BEACH, born April 21, 
1855, in Northfleld. See histories. 

197 ELLEN BEACH, born March 14, 1857, in North- 
field, Mass. See histories. 

David M. Beach at the outbreak of the Re¬ 
bellion enlisted in the 27th Infantry from North 
Dana, Mass. Died March 6, 1863. He was of 


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Adventist religious belief and sometimes 
preached. 


VIII 

191 ANGELINE JANE BEACH, oldest daughter of 

David M. Beach, born July 14, 1837, Glover, Vt. Died 
Sept. 3, 1922, of old age at the home of her grand 
daughter, Lou Bolles Luff, in Gardiner, Mass. Mar¬ 
ried 1st, Henry D. Smith, father of the family, a civil 
war soldier who died in 18G3, in Louisiana. Married 
2nd George Reynolds. Married 3rd, - Scott. 

CHILDREN 

301 HENRY D. SMITH, born June 6, 1855, North- 
field, Mass. He is a retired Sup. of the Winchester 
Tannery, residing in Winchester, N. H. His oldest 
daughter, Edith Mae, married Arthur E. Handy, and 
has a family in Keene, N. H. The second daughter, 
Bertha lone, married Richard Hayes and they have 
a large family residing in Winchester, N. H. Only 
son Arthur, is married and resides in Greenfield, 
Mass. 

302 JENNIE SMITH, born June 6, 1857. She mar¬ 
ried a Mr. Ames and the family resides at Cherry 
Valley, Mass., bx 72. They have a family of four 
children. 

303 MAY SMITH, born June 10, 1864. She married 
Fred Bolles. He died Sept., 1914. Their only daugh¬ 
ter, Lou Bolles, born Jan. 7, 1883, married Albert E. 
Luff. Their family of four, Rodney A., Helene E., 
Grace and Rosamond reside in Gardiner. May Smith 
Bolles resides with the family of her daughter, Lou 
Luff. 

304 EDMUND M. SMITH. He married and has a 
family which resides at 16 High Lawn Road, Battle- 
boro, Vt. 

Angeline Jane Scott resided with her 
grand daughter, Lou Bolles Luff during the 
later years of her life. But few details of her 
life can be learned at this time. 

VIII 

192 APOLLOS BEACH, oldest son of David M. Beach, 
born March 15, 1839, Glover, Vt. Died Aug. 27, 1922, 
at Tewkesbury, Mass. Married Eliza Jane Foster at 
North Dana, Mass., who died June 8, 1914. 


CHILDREN 

305 DAVID LESTER BEACH, born Oct. 7, 1873, North 
Dana, Mass. Married Teressa H. Champney, born Oct. 
5, 1872, at Fitzwilliam, N. H., daughter of Joseph 
Champeny and Maria Haley. They have no family. 


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David Lester Beach is an employee of the city of 
Athol, and reside at 55 Island St., Athol, Mass. 

S06 CORA ISABELLA BEACH, born May 23, 1869, 
North Dana, Mass. Married Eugene L. Glasier, born 
Jan. 16, 1862, son of Spaulding and Lucretia Burt 
Glazier. Their two children, Vera Lucretia, born July 
8, 1902, and Cecil Eugene, born Sept. 18, 1905, at North 
Leverett, Mass. This family resides at North Lever¬ 
et t, Mass. 


VIII 

195 JOSEPHINE BEACH, second daughter of David 
M. Beach, born May 7, 1846 at Wendall, Mass. Mar¬ 
ried Jan. 1, 1866, at New Salem, Mass., to Stephen C. 
Ballou, born June 1, 1847, son of Frances Ballou, of 
Tolland, Conn. He died Sept. 18, 1889. 


CHILDREN 

308 CHARLES M. BALLOU, born Jan. 19, 1867, at 
Wendell, Mass. A farmer and cattle dealer. Mar¬ 
ried Laura M. Brown, daughter of Robert Brown. 
They have one son, Frank E., born 1890. The family 
resides at Wendell, Mass. 

309 WILLIAM H. BALLOU, born June 12, 1870, at 
Wendell. Pie married Maude N. Stiles, daughter of 
Burrett and Sarah (Bingham) Stiles. The family re¬ 
sides now at Orange, Mass. 

310 ANNA E. BALLOU, born in Wendell, Mass., 
Aug. 5. 1872. She died Aug. 15, 1900. 

Josephine Ballou, about 76 years of age now 
resides as she has for many years following the 
death of her husband in Wendell, Mass. For 
about twenty-eight years the family resided at 
Ansonia, Conn. 


VIII 

196 EL WIN CHAUNCEY BEACH, known in life as 
Charles Elwin Beach, 4th son of David M. Beach, 
born April 21, 1855, at Northfield, Mass. Married 

May 14, 1882, to Cora Etta Stowe, of Readsboro, Vt., 
daughter of David Bradles' Stowe and Lucretia Stowe. 


CHILDREN 

406 BERTHA BELL BEACH born Aug. 10, 1884, at 
North Adams, Mass. She married James T. Wheelan, 
born in Ireland, son of Timothy D. Wheelan of Bridge¬ 
port, Conn. Their only son, James Kenneth Wheelan, 
born 1909. 

Mrs. James T. Wheelan is secretary of Cushing 
Academy, located at Ashburnham, Mass. Mr. Wheelan 
is Post Master at Ashburnham, and the family resides 
in Ashburnham. 


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407 MAYBELL FLORENCE BEACH, born June 16, 
1889, Johnsonville, N. Y. Resides with her mother in 
Ashburnham. 

Charles Elwin Beach was a conductor for 
many years out of Fitchburg, N. Y. His widow 
and her youngest daughter now reside with 
her oldest daughter, Mrs. Wheelan, in Ashburn¬ 
ham, Mass. 


VIII 

197 ELLEN BEACH, youngest daughter of David M. 
Beach, born March 14, 1857, in Northfield, Mass. 

Married 1st, Feb. 10, 1852, at Royalston, Mass., to Ed¬ 
ward Freeman, son of Samuel S. Freeman. Married 
2nd, Aug. 22, 1908, at New Salem, Mass., to William 
Slayton, son of Wm. E. Slayton. 

CHXLDltEN 

311 JOSEPHINE FREEMAN, born June 3, 1875, in 
New Salem, Mass. She married Charles Cornwell, a 
farmer of Leverett, Mass. 

312 EARL FREEMAN, born June 3, 1889, at New 
Salem. A machinist residing in Wendell, Mass. 

313 MILDRED FREEMAN, born Sept. 28, 1894, at 
New Salem. She married March 9, 1910, at Spring- 
field, Mass., to Charles Alburn Fiske. They have a 
family of one son, Alburn Fiske, born in Orange, 
Mass. The family resides in Wendell. 

Mrs. Ellen Beach Slayton now resides at 
Millington, Mass. 


SECTION VII 

FAMILIES OF JOSEPH S. BEACH 
Line of 

JOSEPH—1782 
VI 

35 JOSEPH BEACH, fifth son of Azariah Beach, 
born April 20, 1782, in Hebron, Conn., died after 1821. 
Married Dec. 2, 1803, Sophia, daughter of Elisha Alex¬ 
ander. 


CHILDREN 

165 SOPHIA A. BEACH, born March 12, 1806. 

166 CHARLES BEACH, born Oct. 19, 1807. Married 


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and had family of six. Settled New Boston, Conn. 
Oldest daughter Ellen A. was in Rochester, N. Y., in 
1884. Oldest son Charles H. had son Charles W., born 
1800. 

167 JOSEPH S. BEACH, born Feb. 8, 1810, see his¬ 
tory. 

168 WILLIAM BEACH, born 1812. Presbyterian min¬ 
ister. Settled in Virginia. 

169 FRANCES A. BEACH, second daughter of Joseph 
Beach. Born 1814. She married Cornelius Emmett of 
Stratford, Conn., and had Cornelius Francis Emmett, 
born March 4, 1837, in Hartford, Conn., who was 
formally adopted by his uncle Joseph Strong Beach, 
and Susan Lane Beach his wife. Entry in Bible of 
Susan Lane Beach. All that is known. 

170 HARRIET A. BEACH, born 1816. 

171 ELIZABETH S. BEACH, born 1819. She mar¬ 
ried Frederic Rice. 

172 THOMAS BEACH, born 1821. Settled Strat¬ 
ford, Conn. 

Joseph Beach was living in 1809 in New 
School District, Northfield, Mass. 


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167 JOSEPH S. BEACH, second son of Joseph Beach, 
born Feb. 8, 1810, died April 13, 1856. Married June 
2, 1841, (Northfield Record says July 27, 1841) Susan 
E.,' daughter of James Lane of Virginia. She died 
Aug. 1, 1822, in Greenville, Ala. 

CHILDREN 

232 JOSEPH LANE BEACH, born June 20, 1842, in 
Charleston, S. C. See history. 

233 SUSAN F. BEACH, born Dec. 19, 1843. She mar¬ 
ried George Burrows, and had a family of three. 
After the death of Geo. Burrows she married E. L. 
Bingham and had a family of two sons and a daugh¬ 
ter at Kirkwood, Ga. 

Jesse Lane Burrows, the second daughter, mar¬ 
ried John Kiley, and they had one girl, Susie Beach 
Kiley, who married in 1914, O. D. Doolittle, and they 
have two children, John Densmore Doolittle, and 
Marilyn Alma Doolittle. Susie Beach Kiley Doolittle 
possesses the old family Bible of Susan E. Lane, wife 
of Joseph S. Beach, containing names of all the chil¬ 
dren of the Joseph S. Beach family. Mrs. Doolittle 
resides at Box 166, Montague, Mass. 

234 WILLIAM J. BEACH, born April 11, 1845. 

235 EDWARD C. BEACH, born July 19, 1847. 

236 FRANK M. BEACH, born Nov. 30, 1850. 

237 WILLIAM G. L. BEACH, born April 17, 1853, 
Summerville, &. C. See History. 

238 JESSIE CAROLINE BEACH, born April 19, 1855, 
See history. 


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239 ALEXANDER BEACH, born Dec. 31, 1848, 

Charleston, S. C. See history. 

There was also an adopted son, Cornelius Francis 
(Emmett) Beach, son of Frances A. (Beach) Emmitt 
and Cornelius Emmett, born March 4, 1837, in Hart¬ 
ford, Conn., according to the entries in the old fam¬ 
ily Bible of Susan Lane Beach. 

Record, except of youngest son are in North- 
field, town records. He was buried on lot 177, 
Northfield, Cemetery, containing a monument, 
and four graves. After liis death the widow 
married Albert C. Parsons and had two children, 
Mary Jane, who died unmarried, and Herbert 
Collins, now employe of the city of Boston, 
where his family resides. 

VIII 

232 JOSEPH LANE BEACH, oldest son of Joseph S. 
Beach, born June 20, 1842, Charleston, S.C., died May 
8, 1914, in Toledo, Ohio. Married Jan. 17, 1864, in To¬ 
ledo, Ohio, to Laura Colton Osborn, born Aug. 17, 
1840, in Norwalk, Ohio, daughter of John R. Osborn. 

CHILDREN 

327 JOHN H. BEACH, born Aug. 2, 1865, in Toledo, 
Ohio. See history. 

373 EDWARD LATIMER BEACH, born June 30, 
1867, in Toledo. See history. 

374 MARY O. BEACH, born Sept. 5, 1869, in Toledo, 
Ohio. She married T. F. Schneider of Washington, 
D. C. Their family, one son and two daughters, re¬ 
side in Washington. She died Aug. 12, 1919. 

375 BESSIE BEACH, born 1873, in Toledo, died in 
infancy. 

At the outbreak of the Rebellion Joseph Lane 
Beach joined the Confederate army as 1st 
Lieut. 5th Alabama, C. S. A. Was wounded 
and captured at Battle of Antietam. After dis¬ 
charge from northern prisons went to Toledo, 
where he met and married his wife, and where 
his family was born. Was engaged in mercan¬ 
tile business in Toledo, Chicago, and Minne¬ 
apolis. 


IX 

372 JOHN HARTWELL BEACH, oldest son of Jo¬ 
seph L. Beach, born Aug. 2, 1865, in Toledo, Ohio., 
died Nov. 21, 1916, in Manila, P. I. Married April 2, 
1886, at Minneapolis, Minn., to Gertrude Lee Pease, 
born July 11, 1868, at Port Henry, N.Y., daughter of 
Jane and Charley Pease. 


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CHILDREN 


497 CAROLINE JENNINGS BEACH, born Oct. 7, 
1886, in Minneapolis, Minn. She married Oct. 27, 1906, 
at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., to John A. Slade, born 
April 14, 1882, at Saratoga Springs, son of Jennie and 
Charles Slade. Mr. Slade is an attorney. They have 
no children. The family resides at Chestwood, Sara¬ 
toga Springs, N. Y. 

498 JOSEPH LANE BEAOH, born June 26, 1888, in 
Minneapolis, Minn. See history. 

499 JOHN LEE BEACH, born Feb. 11, 1890, in 
Minneapolis, Minn. See history. 

500 JANE PEASE BEACH, born Dec. 18, 1892, in 
Minneapolis, Minn. 

501 EDWARD LATIMER BEACH, born July 21, 
1894, in Minneapolis, Minn. Both died young. 

John Hartwell Beach was a bookkeeeper and 
accountant. He lived and worked for a num¬ 
ber of years in Minneapolis. About the year 
1900 he entered the government service, and re¬ 
moved with his family to Manila, P. I., where 
he died. 


X 


498 JOSEPH LANE BEACH, oldest son of John H. 
Beach, born June 26, 1888, in Minneapolis, Minn. 

Married Mar. 6, 1916, at Manila, P. I., to Rose Ben¬ 
zig, born Oct. 7, 1890, in New York City, daughter of 
John Benzig. 

CHILDREN 

502 GERTRUDE LEE BEACH, born April 20, 1920, 
Manila, P. I. 

503 JOHN BENZIG BEACH, born April 14, 1922, in 
Elizabeth, N. J. 

Joseph Lane Beach is a graduate of Manila 
High Schools. He is a salesman by occupa¬ 
tion, and with his family now resides at 639 
Monroe Ave., Elizabeth, N. J. 


X 


499 JOHN LEE BEACH, second son of John H. 
Beach, born Feb. 11, 1890, in Minneapolis, Minn. Mar¬ 
ried June 21, 1911, in San Francisco, Calif., to Bernice 
Sabine Cagwin, born Aug. 2, 1890, Carson City, Nev., 
daughter of Geo. Cagwin, of Larkspur, Calif. 

CHILDREN 

504 JOHN HARTWELL BEACH, born San Francisco, 
Calif. 


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505 JOSEPH CAGWIN BEACH, born Larkspur, 
Calif. 

John Lee Beaeh is a contractor by occupa¬ 
tion. He is a graduate of Manila High Schools, 
class of 1909. Attended Stanford University 
as a law student. The family now resides 2312 
Harriett Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. 


IX 


373 CAPTAIN EDWARD LATIMER BEACH, Second 
son of Joseph L. Beach, born June 30, 1867, in Toledo, 
Ohio. Married, 1st, May 11, 1895, in Brooklyn, N. Y., 
to Jessie Adelaide Quinn, horn Oct. 5, 1868, New York 
City, daughter of J. J. Quinn. Married 2nd, April, 

1917, at New York City, to Alice Fouche, born Nov. 9, 
1888, at Cape Haitien, Haiti, daughter of Philip 
Fouche. 

Children of E<lw. L. Beach and Alice Fouche 

376 EDWARD LATIMER BEACH, born April 20, 

1918, New York City. 

377 JOHN BLAIR BEACH, born Oct. 27, 1919, Mare 
Island, Calif. 

378 ALICE LAURA BEACH, born March 27, 1921, 
Mare Island, Calif. 

Edward Latimer Beach entered Annapolis 
Academy, from which he graduated with 
honors in 1884, and entered the navy. He 
served in all parts of the world, through a per¬ 
iod of 37 x 4 years, and was retired in 1920 at his 
request with the rank of Captain, and is now at¬ 
tached to Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif., 
as Professor of Naval History. 

Captain Beach’s service to his country has 
been rewarded by many promotions. lie was 
one of Admiral Dewey’s officers on board the 
Baltimore at the battle of Manila Bay, May 1, 
1898, and was present at the capture of Manila, 
Aug. 13, 1898. He was promoted to the rank 
of Captain Dec. 12, 1914. He commanded the 
Memphis when engulfed by a tidal wave with¬ 
out warning. Aug. 29, 1916, and was destroyed, 
lie commanded the naval torpedo boat station 
at Newport, R. I., in 1917. Was placed in com¬ 
mand of the U. S. S. New York, flagship of the 
American contingent of five battle ships attach¬ 
ed to the British Grand Fleet in the North Sea 
during the great war and was present in corn- 


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mand of his ship at the surrender of the Ger¬ 
man High Seas Fleet, Nov. 21, 1918. He was 
placed in command of Mare Island Navy Yard, 
where he served until his retirement. 

The family resides at 1004 Emerson St., Palo 
Alto, Calif. 


VIII 

237 WILLIAM GASSOWAY LANE BEACH, fifth son 
of Joseph S. Beach, born April 17, 1853, Summer¬ 
ville, S. C. Married Sept. 19, 1883, at Greenville, Miss., 
to Eugenia Catherine Tamplin, born Feb. 8, 1855, in 
Texas, daughter of Zachariah Tamplin and Cather¬ 
ine Matthews. 


CHILDREN 

519 WM. A. BEACH, born Sept. 19, 1884, at Way- 
side, Miss. He was drowned in Mississippi River, 
Feb. 13, 1913. 

520 PRISALL J. BEACH, born Sept. 20, 1886, at 
Wayside, Miss. 

521 INSIE BEACH, born May 2, 1888, at Wayside, 
Miss. 

522 JESSIE L. BEACH, born Aug. 8, 1889, at Way- 
side, Miss. She died at Big Bayou Plantation, near 
Wintonville, Miss., May 2, 1899. 

523 CATHERINE BEACH, born Sept. 22, 1891, at 
Wayside, Miss. 

524 BEN L. BEACH, born Sept. 24, 1893, Lake Vil¬ 
lage, Ark. He is a linotype operator and now resides 
at Memphis, Tenn. 

William G. Beach is a blacksmith by occu¬ 
pation. During later years and at present the 
family resides at 210 Alexander St., Greenville, 
Miss. 


VIII 

238 JESSIE CAROLINA BEACH, second daughter 
of Joseph S. Beach, born April 19, 1855, at Northfield, 
Mass. Married May 11, 1875, to Charles S. Crane, at 
Northfield, Mass., born Oct. 23, 1847, at Tecumseh, 
Mich., son of Salomon Crane. He died in 1922. 

CHILDREN 

508 JESSIE BEACH CRANE, born May 15, 1876, in 
Toledo, Ohio. She married Oct. 15, 1900, Walker 
Evans of St. Louis, Mo. The family resides at St. 
Louis. 

509 ROBERT POWERS CRANE, born Aug. 30, 1881, 
Ferguson, Mo. He married April 2, 1907, Nathalie 
Adams, of St. Louis, Mo. The family resides in St. 
Louis. 


Ill 




510 RALPH LANE CRANE, born July 21, 1884, 
Ferguson, Mo. He married Feb. 4, 1918, to — 1 ——*—‘ 
Casserly, Toronto, Ont. 

Charles S. Crane died in Los Angeles, Calif., 
in 1922. The widow resides at 1612 N. Lake 
Ave., Pasadena, Calif. 

VIII 

239 ALEXANDER BEACH, third son of Joseph 
S. Beach, born Dec. 31, 1848, in Charleston, S. C. 
Married June 4, 1892, at Milton, Ill., to Gertrude Mc¬ 
Cann. 


CHILDREN 

517 RUTH V. BEACH, born Nov. 8, 1893, Kansas 
City, Mo. She married Dec. 1, 1917, Ray Greenup, 
Hamilton, Mont. The family resides at Hamilton. 

518 JESSE LANE BEACH, born Nov. 6, 1890, at 
Milton, Ill. 

Alexander Beach is a salesman. The family 
resides at present at Hamilton, Montana. 


SECTION VIII 

FAMILIES OF JAMES BEACH 
Line of 

BENJAMIN BEACH—1682 
III 

13 BENJAMIN BEACH, third son of Azariah Beach, 
born Jan. 14, 1682, in Killingworth, Conn., died 1712, 
in Durham, Conn. Married Dinah Birdsey of Strat¬ 
ford, Conn., and settled in Durham, Conn. 

CHILDREN 

158 JOSEPH BEACH, born Oct. 24, 1710. He mar¬ 
ried Experience Beecher and settled in Durham, Conn., 
where five of his children were born, when he re¬ 
moved to Torrington, Conn., where three more chil¬ 
dren were born and where he resided the rest of his 
life. One of his sons, Joseph, Jr., married Jerusha 
Phelps and had a family of three, one of whom was 
Horace Beach, born 1780. Joseph, Jr., was a captain 
in the Revolution. Another son, Benjamin, born 1740, 
married Abia Loomis, of Torrington, and had a famr 
ily of six near Torrington in Litchfield County. One 
of his sons was Ezra Beach, born Oct. 26, 1766. 

Nothing definite is known of this Ezra. . . . He is 


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however, believed to be that Ezra Beach who married 
-t’oily Stoddard and who removed from Litchfield Co. 
Conn.,, about 1818, and settled with his family in 
Seeley’s Bay, Ontario, where they resided till 1840 
when they all removed to Porter County, Indiana. The 
children of this Ezra Beach were: Lyman, the oldest, 
who married and had a family of five, one of whom 
was Willard Beach, born Dec. 5, 1836; Polly, the sec¬ 
ond child, who married and had a family of two; 
Truman, third child, who married and had two chil¬ 
dren, Ezra, born in 1860, and Diantha, mother of 
Madge Kennedy the actress; Harmon, fourth child, 
born in Litchfield Co., May 8, 1812, removed to Can¬ 
ada with his parents in 1818, and later removed to 
Porter Co., Ind., in 1837. His family of five has two 
sons, Eugene and Lester; Sheldon, fifth child, born 
Jan. 11, 1817, who married Experience Sheldon and 
had a family of four. He is believed to be that Shel¬ 
don Beach who appears on the list of citizens of Tor- 
rington, Conn., and Philo, sixth child of Ezra, of 
Seeley’s Bay. W. G. Black, Mandan, N. D., is a son 
of Aseneath Beach, the oldest daughter of Sheldon 
Beach. 


159 CAPTAIN ABEL BEACH, born Feb. 9, 1712, in 
Durham, Conn. See history. 

Benjamin Beach died soon after the birth of 
Abel, and his wife married Samuel Norton of 
Durham, by whom she raised a family of six 
girls. Her two Beach sons accompanied the 
family to Goshen, Conn., later both settling in 
Torrington. 


IV 

159 CAPTAIN ABEL BEACH, second son of Benja¬ 
min Beach, born Feb. 9, 1712, in Durham, Conn., died 
Oct. 3, 1796 in Torrington, Conn. Married April 5, 
1738, Margaret Pickett of Durham, who died Aug. 30, 
1803. 


CHILDREN 

BENJAMIN BEACH, bap. Oct. 5, 1738. He died 
young. 

211 ABEL BEACH, born Dec. 18, 1740, at Torrington, 
Conn. Married March 12, 1774, Esther Peck of Ply¬ 
mouth. The family resided in Torrington, where they 
reared a family of two daughters. 

212 SAMUEL BEACH, born Dec. 2, 1742, in Tor¬ 
rington, Conn. See histories. 

213 REBECCA BEACH, born May 23, 1745, in Tor¬ 
rington, Conn. She married Dec. 1, 1768, Samuel Hul- 
burt, removing to Winchester, where they reared an 
important family. 

214 MARGARET BEACH, born Sept. 3, 1747, in Tor¬ 
rington, Conn. She married Oct. 5, 1767, Abijah Wil¬ 
son and removed to Winsted, Conn., where they reared 
an important family of six. 


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215 JOHN BEACH, born May 2, 1750, in Torrington, 
Conn. He married June 9, 1774, Mercy Bassett. They 
resided first in Winchester, later returning to Tor¬ 
rington, where they occupied the Beach homestead. 
They had a family of three sons and two daughters, 
of whom Abel Beach, the oldest, born 1775, married 
Roxey Taylor, and removed to Wadsworth, Ohio, 
where their two sons, Orlando and George, were im¬ 
portant farmers. Orlando was living in Wadsworth as 
late as 1778, and George later removed to Clinton, 
Iowa. 

216 JAMES BEACH, born May 24, 1752, in Torring¬ 
ton. A private in Co. C, Capt. James Wilson. 

217 NOAH BEACH, born Sept. 13, 1755, in Torring¬ 
ton, Conn. He married Sarah Bradley, and they 
reared a family of five in Torrington, sons Anan and 
Julius. A soldier of the Revolution. 

218 MARTHA BEACH, born Jan. 13, 1759, in Tor¬ 
rington. 

Captain Abel Beach came to Torrington and 
bought considerable land there as early as 1737. 
He lived all his life in Torrington, and became 
a very prominent citizen there. He was made 
Captain Oct. 27, 17GG. He ran a tavern for 
many years in Torrington which became a gen¬ 
eral political and social center of the com¬ 
munity. 

V 

212 SAMUEL BEACH, second son of Captain Abel 
Beach, born Dec. 2, 1742, in Torrington, Conn. Mar¬ 
ried Keziah. 

CHILDREN 

319 KEZIAH BEACH, born Oct. 10, 1768, in Torring¬ 
ton. Died young. 

320 MINDWELL BEACH, born Dec. 16, 1770, in Tor¬ 
rington. 

321 RHODA BEACH, born May 8, 1776, in Torring¬ 
ton. 

322 • KEZIAH BEACH, born Aug. 16, 1779, in Tor¬ 
rington. Married 1829, to Reuben Hall in Torrington. 

323 SAMUEL BEACH, born Aug. 21, 1781, in Tor¬ 
rington. See history. 

Samuel Beach was a private in Capt. Amos 
Wilson Co. 5, 17th Regiment. Lived all his life 
in Torrington on land afterward owned by Rev. 
A. Gillett, next the Abijah Wilson place. 

VI 

323 SAMUEL BEACH, only son of Samuel Beach, 
No. 212, born Aug. 21, 1781, at Torrington. Married 


114 


Content Hall, who was a member of the Church of 
Torrington. 

CHILDREN 

324 LURANDUS BEACH, born 1803, in Torrington. 
See history. 

325 CLARISSA BEACH. 

320 AUGUSTUS BEACH. 

327 FREDERICK BEACH. 

328 LAURA BEACH. 

329 CHARLOTTE BEACH, died young. 

330 JEMIMIE BEACH, died young. 

331 CATHERINE BEACH. 

513 SAMUEL BEACH, the youngest, who was mar¬ 
ried twice, and whose daughter Lelia Beach Roberts, 
resides in Dubuque, Iowa, and daughter Carrie Beach 
Russell, now dead, left a daughter, Marion Russell 
Thomas. 

Samuel Beach occupied the old homestead of 
his father a little west of Wolcottville and ap¬ 
pears on the lists of Freemen of Torrington. 

VII 

324 LURANDUS BEACH, oldest son of Samuel Beach, 
born 1803, near Torrington, died Aug. 28, 1883, in 
Lawrence, Mass. Married in Connecticut, Harriet 
Burr, born June 13, 1803, daughter of Reuben Burr. 

CHILDREN 

332 LURANDUS BEACH, Jr., born Nov. 4, 1832, at 
Dover, N. H. Married 1855, Persis A. Miller of Mid¬ 
dletown, Conn. About 1845 removed with his father 
to Lawrence, Mass., where they engaged in the manu¬ 
facture of soap for many years. Their only son Irving 
Beach, succeeded his father in the soap business, 
married June 12, 1895, Ida Flora Bass, daughter of 
Samuel W. Bass. Irving Beach died in 1909, leaving 
his widow, now Mrs. E. L. Brown, residing at 11 
Sheffield Road, Winchester, Mass., and two daughters, 
Marion Esther Galloway, wife of Dr. Frank Herbert 
Galloway, residing at Lawrence, Mass., and Helen 
Edith Beach, born 1906. 

333 JAMES BEACH, born July 26, 1835, in Dover, N. 
H. See history. 

334 BURR BEACH, born 1839, died single at age 23 
years. 

Lurandus Beach removed to Dover, N. H., 
where he began the manufacture of soap. The 
business prospered, and branches were estab¬ 
lished in Haverhill, Mass., and Lawrence, Mass. 
About 1845 he removed with his family to Law¬ 
rence, then known as “The New City.” He was 


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one of the earliest settlers there and acted as 
agent in buying land for large mills established 
there. He was a prominent abolitionist, and 
friend of Wm. Lloyd Garrison, who stopped at 
his home many times. At one public meeting 
he with Mr. Garrison were forcibly taken out 
of the Congregational church of Dover, of which 
he was a member, and later was expelled from 
the church because of his active opposition to 
slavery. He was a member of the “under 
ground railway” which assisted negroes into 
Canada. During the later years of his life, the 
soap business in Lawrence was enlarged and be¬ 
came the principal office and business at Dover 
and Haverhill was discontinued. 


VIII 

333 JAMES BEACH, second son of Lurandus Beach, 
born July 26, 1835, in Dover N. H., died Feb. 2, 1918, 
in Dubuque, Iowa, where he is buried. Married 1st, 
Jan. 14, 1861, at Torrington, Conn., to Caroline J. 
Wilson, born Dec. 12, 1843, at Wolcottville, Conn., 
daughter of Waite B. and Caroline J. Wilson. She 
died at Dubuque, Iowa, Feb. 18, 1872. Married 2nd, 
Jan. 14, 1874, at Springfield, Ohio, to Sarah L. Barr. 
She died in Dubuque, Iowa, Oct. 10, 1887. Married 
3rd, May 29, 1890, Springfield, Ohio, to Mary L. Wil¬ 
lard. She died in Dubuque, Iowa, Jan. 16, 1916. 


Children of James Beach and Caroline Wilson 

335 GEORGE WILSON BEACH, born Oct. 1861, at 
Dubuque, Iowa. See history. 

336 EDWARD JAMES BEACH, born Aug. I860, at 
Dubuque, Iowa. See history. 

337 CHARLES BURR BEACH, born Oct. 1871, in 
Dubuque, Iowa. See history. 

James Beach moved to Lawrence, Mass., with 
his parents. After leaving school he was asso¬ 
ciated with his father in the manufacture of 
soap. At the age of twenty-one he started West, 
stopping for a short time in Chicago, then a 
small city, later going for a few months to Au¬ 
rora, Ill., thence to Dubuque, Iowa, in 185G. 
Dubuque was then a frontier mining town of 
promise. The railroads had not yet crossed the 
Mississippi and all traffic of Dubuque was car¬ 
ried on by steamboat 01 * stage coach. During 
these early years he had many interesting and 
exciting pioneer experiences, in his overland 


11G 


travels on the prairies of eastern Kansas, Iowa 
and southern Minnesota. On one occasion he 
saw T many of the victims of the Indian massa¬ 
cre at New Ulm, Minn. 

Soon after reaching Dubuque, he purchased 
half interest in a small soap manufacturing busi¬ 
ness. Later he became interested in soap fac¬ 
tories at St. Paul and St. Anthony, now part 
of Minneapolis. Ultimately he purchased his 
partners interest in the factory at Dubuque and 
greatly enlarged it. In 1890 he took in his son 
Edward as a partner and called the business 
James Beach and Son. Five years later, another 
son, Charles, entered the firm and the name was 
changed to James Beach & Sons, under which 
name the business still continues. In 1918 the 
remaining son, George, returned from Minne¬ 
apolis and became a member of the firm. James 
Beach was also interested in a local meat pack¬ 
ing plant, a Dubuque lumber company and was 
for several years president of a Dubuque bank, 
and official on the boards of several charitable 
institutions. 


IX 

% 

335 GEORGE WILSON BEACH, oldest son of James 
Beach, born Oct. 11, 1861, in Dubuque, Iowa. Mar¬ 
ried June 6, 1888, Lawrence, Mass., to Cora M. Mc- 
Duffee, born Feb. 1865, in Boston, daughter of Jacob 
and Martha McDuffee. 


CHILDREN 

338 CAROLYN WILSON BEACH, born Jan. 1890, in 
Minneapolis, Minn. She married in 1918, Dr. Donald 
McCarthy and the family resides in Minneapolis, 
Minn. 

339 GEORGE LAWRENCE BEACH, born Aug., 1893, 
in Minneapolis, Minn. 

George W. Beach removed to Minneapolis, 
Minn., in 1881, where he engaged for a time in 
the manufacture of soap. Afterward became in¬ 
terested in a Minneapolis quarry company, and 
later retired from active business till 1918, when 
he returned to Dubuque, Iowa, and entered the 
firm of James Beach & Sons. The family resides 
in Dubuque. 


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IX 


336 EDWARD JAMES BEACH, second son of James 
Beach, born Aug. 11, 1866, in Dubuque, Iowa. Mar¬ 
ried April 6, 1909, at Stanford University, to Helen 
M. Junkins, born June 10, 1877, in Lawrence, Mass., 
daughter of George Selby and Mary Josephine Jun¬ 
kins. 


CHILDREN 

340 JAMES WILSON BEACH, born Jan. 29, 1810, in 
Dubuque, Iowa. 

341 RUTH BEACH, born Feb. 2, 1912, in Dubuque, 
Iowa. 

312 EDWARD JAMES BEACH, born Jan. 20, 1915, 
in Dubuque, Iowa. 

Edward James Beach was educated in the 
public schools of Dubuque, Iowa ; is a graduate 
of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology of 
Boston, June, 1889. Jan. 1, 1890, he went into 
partnership with his father in Dubuque, Iowa, 
and they engaged in the manufacture of soap 
under the firm name of James Beach & Son. lie 
has been active in the business ever since. 


IX 

337 CHARLES BURR BEACH, third son of James 
Beach," born Oct. 17, 1871, in Dubuque, Iowa. Mar¬ 
ried Oct. 2, 1902, in Springfield, Ohio, to Elizabeth W. 
Brain, born Nov. 3, 1870, at Springfield, daughter of 
George and Sarah Brain. 


CHILDREN 

343 SARAH WILLARD BEACH, born June 24, 1905, 
in Dubuque, Iowa. 

3! 1 ELIZABETH BEACH, born Sept. 27, 1908, in 

Dubuque, Iowa. 

345 MARY BRAIN BEACH, born Aug. 28, 1911, in 
Dubuque, Iowa. 

Charles Burr Beach was educated in the Du¬ 
buque schools, and later entered Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology of Boston, from which 
he graduated June, 1894, in Chemical Engineer¬ 
ing. On Jan. 1, 1895, he entered the firm of 
James Beach & Sons soap manufacturers of 
Dubuque, Iowa, where he has since been active 
in the business. 


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SECTION IX 


FAMILIES OF ELISHA BEACH, Jr., AND 
JOHN BEACH 

Line of 

CAPT. ELISHA BEACH—1739 


V 

27 CAPTAIN ELISHA BEACH, second son of Az- 
ariah Beach, born April 17, 1737, (Hebron record 

says April 6, 1739) died March 15, 1823, and is buried 
with his wife in Burrows Hill Cemetery, where a 
monument stands to them. Married Oct. 11, 1764 to 
Desire Taylor, who died May 16, 1816. 


CHILDREN 

265 ELISHA BEACH, Jr., born July 20, 1765, In 
Hebron. See history. 

286 ELIJAH BEACH (Elisha’s twin), born July 20, 
1765. Died Nov. 18, 1784. 

460 LYDIA BEACH, born July 13, 1767, in Hebron. 
Died Jan. 10, 1777. 

461 ABAGAIL BEACH, born July 24, 1769, in Hebron. 
Married May 13, 1790, Daniel Niles of Colchester. 

462 JOHN BEACH, born Jan. 30, 1773, in Hebron. 
See history. 

463 DESIRE BEACH, horn March 31, 1775, in Hebron, 
She married John Felshaw of Hebron. Michael Fel- 
shaw, probably a son, signed as good evidence in the 
settlement of the estate of Azariah Beach, grand¬ 
father of Desire. 

461 LYDIA BEACH, born April 26, 1777, in Hebron. 
Married David Dean. 

465 DAN BEACH, born July 25, 1779, in Hebron. 

466 EUNICE BEACH, born July 25, 1781, in Hebron. 
Never married. 

Captain Elislia lived and died in Hebron. 
Entered the army and served in the Revolu¬ 
tion as ensign in Capt. Tarbox’s Company of 
Militia, 12th Regiment. The regiment went to 
East Chester, N. Y., in September, 1776. His 
title of Captain said to have been acquired 
through service in the state militia after the 
close of the Revolution. He signed as witness 


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and good evidence in the settlement of his 
father’s estate, after having refused trust as 
one of the executors named in his father’s will. 

VI 


265 ELISHA BEACH, Jr., oldest son of Captain 
Elisha, born July 20, 1765, in Hebron, died March 28, 
1820, in Hebron, with wife buried in Burrows Hill 
cemetery. Married June 1, 1788, at Hebron, Honor 
Wrisley, born Dec. 29, 1762, daughter of Job WHsley 
and Mary Webster. She died May 29, 1853. 

CHILDREN 

168 POLLY BEACH, born Aug. 5, 1789, in Hebron. 
Died unmarried July 6, 1857. 

469 ABAGAIL BEACH, born July 27, 1791, in Hebron. 
Died unmarried Dec. 17, 1862. 

470 RALPH BEACH, born Dec. 5, 1794, in Hebron. 
See history. 

404 LEWIS BEACH, born Jan. 26, 1797, in Hebron. 
See history. 

266 GEORGE R. BEACH, born Dec. 24, 1799, at 

Hebron. See history. 

But little is known of the intimate life of 
Elisha Beach, Jr. 


VII 

470 RALPH BEACH, oldest son of Elisha Beach, 
Jr., born Dec. 5, 1794, in Hebron, Conn., died Dec. 29, 
1884, in Watson, N. Y. Married Jan. 20, 1817, in 
Glastonbury, Conn., to Harriet House, born in Glaston¬ 
bury, 1799. 


CHILDREN 

545 RALPH BEACH, Jr., born Jan. 22, 1818, in Heb¬ 
ron, Conn. See history. 

591 SOPHIA BEACH, born Oct. 11, 1819, in Hebron, 
Conn. She married Ira Sherman and the family set¬ 
tled in Chester, Oklahoma, and had two sons, Josiah, 
who was a cattle inspector in Chester, Okla., and 
Charles, who at last accounts was register of deeds, 
Comancho Co., Kas. Sophia Beach Sherman died Jan. 
2, 1902, in Chester. 

590 HARRIET ELIZA BEACH, born Oct. 23, 1821, 
Hebron, Conn. 

589 MARY ANN BEACH, born Dec. 3, 1823, Hebron, 
Conn. She married June 6,1846, Chauncey B. Leonard, 
born June 2, 1822, Springfield, Mass., son of Chaun- 
cey Leonard and the family settled first in Marble 
Cliff, Ohio, where their oldest child, Edwin Beach 
Leonard was born Oct. 18, 1848. The family later re¬ 
moved to Columbus, Ohio, where their daughter, Mary 


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E. Leonard was born Dec. 27, 1857. Mary E. Leonard 
never married, and now resides in Columbus, Ohio, 
at 370 14 2nd St. Edwin Beach Leonard married, and 
reared a family of two sons and a daughter in Co¬ 
lumbus, dying Sept. 17, 1918, in Columbus. 

541 GEORGE N BEACH, born Oct. 10, 1825, in Heb¬ 
ron, Conn. See history. 

588 JOHN L. BEACH, born Dec. 8, 1828, Watson, 
N. Y, He lived in Massachusetts, and owned cotton 
and woolen mills in Adams, or North Adams or Lee. 
He had no family and died Mar. 8, 1845. 

621 JAMES BEACH, born March 23, 1845, died May 
2, 1845, a child by a second wife. 

Ralph Beach was a farmer near Watson, N. 
Y., not far from Lowville. Not much detail is 
known of his life. Mr. Hubert Beach of Lee, 
Mass., called on him about 1880. He was then 
over ninety years of age, a powerful man who 
read without glasses. 


VIII 

544 GEORGE NELSON BEACH, second son of Ralph 
Beach, born Oct. 10, 1825, in Hebron, Conn., died 
Oct. 9, 1893, in Watson, N. Y. Married Feb. 17, 1855, 
in Watson, Esther E. Hall, born Sept. 13, 1837, Lin¬ 
coln, N. Y., daughter of Rowland B. Hall. She died 
at the home of her son, Henry M., 1922. 

CHILDREN 

602 LUELLA L. BEACH, born Feb. 8, 1859, Watson, 
N. Y. Married April, 1879, Chauncey Wetmore, of 
Watson. Both were drowned in Speakers Basin, N. 
Y., Sept. 15, 1879. 

603 HENRY M. BEACH, born Aug. 10, 1862, in Wat¬ 
son. See history. 

604 CORA M. BEACH, born June 23, 1866, in Wat¬ 
son. 

605 LOUIS E. BEACH, born Oct. 16, 1878, in Watson. 
A contractor and builder, married and resides at 
Eagle Bay, N. Y., on Fulton Chain of Lakes. 

George Nelson Beach was a lumberman and 
farmer. Not much is known of his intimate life. 

IX 

603 HENRY M. BEACH, oldest son of George N. 
Beach, born Aug. 10, 1862, Watson, N. Y. Married 
Sept. 4, 1887, at Philadelphia, N. Y., to Bertha W. 
Brown, born Jan. 10, 1868, at Watson, adopted daugh¬ 
ter of B. F. Brown. 


CHILDREN 

606 HARRY M. BEACH, born Feb. 22, 1889, at Wat¬ 
son. Married Nov. 1911, to Marguerite Morrell, daugh¬ 
ter of Theo. Morrell, Brooklyn, and resides in Colo- 


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rado Springs, Colo., at 2409 W. Colorado Ave., where 
he has a Kodak store. 

607 WELLINGTON J. BEACH, born Dec. 30, 1893, 
Carthage, N. Y. Married Jan. 8, 1920, to Josephine 
Louise Morrell, daughter of Theo. Morrell. He is a 
photographer, residing at West Palm Beach, Fla. 
Served in world war as official war photographer, and 
was gassed. No family. 

608 WELTHA A. BEACH, born Sept. 3, 1898, Low- 
ville, N. Y., died July 17, 1917. 

609 LYLE K. BEACH, born Dec. 17, 1903, Carthage, 
N. Y., resides with- parents. 

Henry M. Beaeli is a scenic photographer. 
He owns a farm near Glenfield, five miles from 
Lowville, where he spends much of his time. 
The family resides R. F. 1). 1, Glenfield, N. Y. 

VIII 

545 RALPH BEACH, Jr., oldest son of Ralph Beach, 
born at Hebron, Conn., died Nov. 19, 1900, in Watson, 
N. Y. He married Phidelia Main. 

CHILDREN 

592 ANDREW J. BEACH, born June 24, 1842, in 
Watson, N. Y. He married and the family now re¬ 
sides R. F. D. No. 1, Glenfield, N. Y., on a farm. His 
children are Edwin, born 1863, Edith, Jennie, Ada, 
and Edna. Further details of this family have not 
been furnished. 

593 G. WELLINGTON BEACH, born Oct. 28, 1844, 
in Watson, N. Y. He married and resides at Glenfield, 
R. F. D. 1, but has no family. Details not furnished. 

594 MARY BEACH. No particulars. 

595 JOHN L. BEACH, born Aug. 7, 1850, in Watson. 

N. Y. Married Dec. 24, 1879, to Emogene Flint, 

daughter of Martin Flint of Watson. The family re¬ 
sides on a farm, Glenfield R. F. D. 1, and have two 
daughters. Marcia Phidelia, born Feb. 2, 1872, and 
Grace Mae, born Feb. 4, 18S6, in Watson. He served 
six terms as supervisor, also as sheriff of Lewis coun¬ 
ty. Is a member of Lowville Lodge F. & A. M., R. 
A. M.; a Mystic Shriner and a Knight Templar. 

No details of the intimate life of Ralph 
Beach, Jr., are known, except that he was a 
farmer of Watson. 


VII 

404 LEWIS BEACH, second son of Elisha Beach, Jr., 
born Jan. 20, 1797, in Hebron, Conn. Married April 
11, 1829, at Springfield, Mass., Abagail C. Keith, 

daughter of Samuel Keith, a schoolmaster from 
Scotland. 


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CHILDREN 


453 JANE BEACH, born March 13, 1830, in Lee, 
Mass. Married June 19, 1849, in Hebron, to Dr. L. 
Eldridge Way. 

454 JOHN EATON BEACH, born Dec. 2, 1831, in 
Lee, Mass. Married and resided in Lee, Mass., till 
the death of his wife, when he went West. 

455 HARRIET BEACH, born Jan. 3, 1834. 

458 HANNAH BEACH, born Sept. 18, 1836, in Lee, 
Mass. She married and reared a family in Lee, Mass., 
of whom one son, P. L. Cheney, born Jan. 1, 1861, 
married Aug'. 13, 1882, to Bessie Glentz, born April 6, 
\ 1866, in Pittsfield, Mass., and the family settled in 
Pittsfield where they reared a family of four boys, of 
whom Rodney Keith Cheney, born May 2, 1890, mar¬ 
ried June 28, 1917, at Troy, N. Y., to Helen Foster, 
born Dec. 12, 1890, in Chicago, daughter of Clark H. 
Foster and Harriet Kellogg. They have two daugh¬ 
ters, Elizabeth Foster, born 1918, and Eleanor, born 
1921. Rodney K. Cheney is sales manager of Tol- 
hurst Machine Works of Troy, N. Y., and resides at 
Spring Avenue, Troy, N. Y. 

457 HENRY LEWIS BEACH, born June 25, 1839, in 
Lee, Mass. Was a Civil War soldier from Lee, Mass,, 
and was killed in action June 3, 1863. His widow 
married Dr. Fitch, of Lee. 

458 MYRON E. BEACH, born in Lee, Mass. Was a 
railway conductor. Married and lived for a number 
of years in Detroit, later to Mexico, but returned to 
Lee, and died there. His daughter married a Mr. 
Keith, of Boston. 

Lewis Beach was a member of the firm of 
Beach & Royce, mill owners of Lee, Mass. He 
was a member of the Massachusetts legislature 
about 1844. 


YII 

266 HON. GEORGE R. BEACH, youngest son of Eli¬ 
sha Beach, Jr., born Dec. 24, 1799, in Hebron, Conn., 
died Oct. 27, 1853, in Hebron. Married Dec. 16, 1828, 
to Margaret Day Jones, born Oct. 5, 1805, died Oct. 
20, 1831, daughter of Erastus Jones, who was son of 
Col. Joel Jones, a soldier of the Revolution from 1776 
to 1783. 

CHILDREN 

267 GEORGE DAY BEACH, born Sept 30, 1831. See 
history. 

471 MARY BEACH, born Oct. 7,1833, died 1833. 

472 CATHERINE E. BEACH, born Dec. 27, 1841, at 
Marlborough, Conn. See history. 

George R. Beach was a wagon maker and 
mill owner. He was a smart man, was almost 
continuously in office, as tax collector, or some 


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other important office, from 1829 to 1852. He 
was Democratic representative in the Connecti¬ 
cut legislature about 1848. 


VIII 

267 GEORGE DAY BEACH, oldest son of George R. 
Beach, born Sept. 30, 1831, In Hebron, died Jan. 6, 
1903, Hebron, Conn. Married 1st, June 3, 1855, at Heb¬ 
ron, to Cynthia Maria Cleveland, born Oct. 10, 1833, 
died Nov. 17, 1880, daughter of Deacon John Crandall 
Cleveland and Condace Roberts, mother of the fam¬ 
ily. Married 2nd, Nov. 26, 1885, to Mary Thompson, 
daughter of Deacon Elias Thompson, of Hebron, Conn. 


CHILDREN 

476 GEORGE HOWARD BEACH, born May 2, 1856, 
at Hebron, Conn. He married 1st, July 1, 1880, at 
Hartford, Conn., to Augusta Ann Poindexter, born 
June 13, 1856, at Hartford, died Dec. 26, 1900, daugh¬ 
ter of John H. P. Poindexter. Married 2nd, April 1, 
1891, at Tyingliam, Mass., to Mary Elizabeth Jones, 
born March 12, 1865, at East Lee, Mass., daughter of 
Henry J. Jones and Jane Thorp. They have no chil¬ 
dren. Adopted daughter, Carrie Josephine, who mar¬ 
ked Fred H. Phelps, of Mittineague, Mass., and have 
one son, Clifton H. 

George Howard Beach is a paper maker, and 
owns a large farm at Tyingham, where the fam¬ 
ily resides. Post office address, Lee, Mass. He 
entered the U. S. Navy when sixteen, and be¬ 
fore he was eighteen had traveled in England, 
Spain, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Malta and 
Constantinople. 

268 HUBERT CLEVELAND BEACH, born Oct. 8, 
1859, in Hebron, Conn. See history. 

George Day Beach was a man of property 
nnd many business interests. He served as 
selectman, as Justice of the Peace, and other 
important offices. 


IX 

268 HUBERT CLEVELAND BEACH, second son of 
George Day Beach, born Oct. 8, 1859, in Hebron, Conn. 
Married 1st, Sept. 21, 1882, at Clinton, Conn., to Grace 
Arlington Buell, born March 26, 1857, at Clinton, 
daughter of Harvey E. Buell and Nancy M. Bushnell. 
Married 2nd, Aug. 22, 1911, at Pittsfield, Mass., to 
Gertrude E. Franks, born Sept. 2, 1872, at Bangor Me., 
daughter of John Frederick Franks and Katherine 
Anna Bruckhof. 


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CHILDREN 

477 CLEVELAND HARVEY BUELL BEACH, born, 
July 25, 1884, at Clinton, Conn. He married Dec. 24, 
1012, at Lenola, N. J., to Marion Harland Claypoole, 
born May 23, 1890, at Lenola, daughter of William 
Kirkbrick Claypoole and Catherine Prettyman. They 
have no children. Mr. Beach is a graduate of Morgan 
School, Connecticut, class of 1904; of Trinity College, 
Hartford, Conn., class of 1908. Is assistant architect 
and engineer, and resides at Moorestown (Lenola), 
New Jersey. 

478 HUBERT BUELL BEACH, born July 29, 1886, 
at Malden, Mass. He died young, buried in Clinton 
cemetery. 

Hubert Cleveland Beach became a manufac¬ 
turing chemist of Boston, Mass., now retired. 
Was originator and founder of Beach & Clar- 
ridge Co. Incorporator and officer in several 
other manufacturing companies and publica¬ 
tions. Is a member of National Lancers 1st 
Cavalry State of Massachusetts; member of 
Knights Templar; Scottish Rite Mason and 
Mystic Shrine. Served in late war as four 
minute man, Committee of Public Safety, and 
was member of the Food Saving Division of the 
U. S. Food Administration. Permanent address 
Lock Box 11, Lee, Mass. 

VIII 

472 CATHERINE BEACH, second daughter of George 
R. Beach, born Dec. 27, 1841, Marlborough, Conn., died 
April 5, 1919, in Hebron, Conn. Married April, 1861, 
George I. Allyn, at Hebron, Conn., born Aug. 14, 1831, 
at Goshen, Conn., son of Benjamin Allyn. 

CHILDREN 

473 CHARLES GEORGE ALLYN, born Feb. 20, 1869, 
in Hebron. He married, Nov. 25, 1896, Louise Schwab, 
born May 18, 1876, daughter of John Schwab. The 
family resides at 74 Williams St., Hartford, Conn., 
where Mr. Allyn is connected with the Veeder Mfg. 
Co. Is a graduate of Storrs, Class of 1892; studied law 
at Hartford; was representative from Hebron 1900- 
1901; is 32nd degree Mason, Shriner, Royal Arch Ma¬ 
son. They have one son, Robert Leon Allyn, born 
Sept. 5, 1897, a graduate of Yale, class 1920; studied 
law Yale Law school; served in late war, being dis¬ 
charged Dec. 21, 1918, rank Quartermaster, 2nd class. 

474 JOSEPHINE E. ALLYN, born Nov. 18, 1871, re¬ 
sides at Vv T inston, Conn. 

475 K. BELLE ALLYN, born Dec. 28, 1861. Married 
June 8, 1910, Edward Ailing, son of Ezra Ailing. Ed¬ 
ward Ailing was for many years V-Pres. and Director 


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of Berlin Savings Bank. The widow resides Wallace 
St., New Britain, Conn. 

525 GRACE MAY ALLYN, born Nov. 23, 1866, in 
Hebron, Conn. Married June 24, 1896, Albert R. Strick¬ 
land, son of Alfred R. Strickland, died Dec. 31, 1917. 
He was a farmer. The widow resides at Glastonbury, 
Conn. They have one daughter, Bernice K. Strick¬ 
land, now engaged in office work in Hartford. 

526 BURTON B. ALLYN, born April 9, 1864, in Heb¬ 
ron. A farmer residing Middletown, Conn., R. F. D. 
1. He married Oct. 17, 1893, Alice G. Sage, daughter 
of William and Lucy Sage. They have one son, Sher¬ 
wood F. Allyn, born Oct. 2, 1895, at Hebron, Conn. 
He is a carpenter and was married Aug. 11, 1923, to 
Viola Marguerite Aspinwall, of Berlin, Conn., now of 
Pasadena, Calif. The family resides at 1550 Martin 
Avenue, Pasadena, Calif. 

George I. Allyn was a wagonmaker and pa¬ 
per mill man. Served as Democratic representa¬ 
tive in the Connecticut legislature in 1848. 

VI 

462 JOHN BEACH, third son of Capt. Elisha Beach, 
born Jan. 30, 1773, in Hebron, died May 15, 1845, in 
Watson, N. Y. Married June 1, 1798, at Hebron, to 
Lydia Porter, born 1778, daughter of Increase Porter 
and Amelia Woodworth. 

CHILDREN 

467 NELSON J. BEACH, born Sept. 21, 1800, in 
Hebron, Conn. See history. 

566 MARY ANN BEACH, born Sept. 11, 1802, in 
Hebron, Conn. Married Nov. 25, 1825, Isaac Avery, 
and reared a family. Jerusha Avery, one of the 
(laughters, married Dec. 29, 1857, Leonard Davenport, 
and had daughter, Mary, born June 6, 1867, who mar¬ 
ried June 29, 1895, Leon S. Miller of Lowville, N. Y. 
Their daughter Margaret Davenport Miller, married 
Oct. 1, 1921, Russell W. Harris. These people reside 
in Lowville. 

567 JOHN SIDNEY BEACH, born June 15, 1804, in 
Hebron, Conn. 

568 LAURA PORTER BEACH, born Sept. 23, 1806, 
Litchfield, Conn. 

John Beach removed to Watson, N. Y., in 
1814, to take charge of an estate belonging to a 
Mr. Watson, after whom Watson, N. Y. was 
named. He died in Watson. 

V 

YII 

167 NELSON J. BEACH, son of John Beach, born 
Sept. 20, 1800, in Hebron, Conn., died Feb. 22, 1876, at 
Lowville, near Watson, N. Y. Married 1828, to Emily 


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Porter, born Sept. 22, 1806, at Hebron, daughter of 
Bela Porter and Mary Strong, descendant of John 
Porter, who came from England, 1638, a cousin of 
Nelson J. Beach. 


CHILDREN 

569 AMELIA S. BEACH, born Sept. 3, 1830, at Wat¬ 
son, N. Y., died May 18, 1915, West Winfield, N. Y. 
Married 1st, 1851, to Seymour Bradley, who died 
Oct. 1853. By him she had, Nellie Seymour Bailey, 
born Jan. 15, 1853, who married, 1872, Dr. Herbert 
John Spencer of Winfield, N. Y., and they had Grace 
Winfield Spencer, who died; Mary Beach Spencer; 
Ruth Spencer and Ralph Spencer. Ruth married Dr. 
Charles Darwin Huxtable and has two boys, John 
Spencer, born 1913, and Robert Darwin, born 1917. 
Amelia S. Beach married 2nd, to William R. Merrill, 
Oct. 28, 1868, and by him had one son, Byron Beach 
Merrill, born July 17, 1870. 

570 GEORGE BYRON BEACH, born April 2, 1832, 
at Watson, N. Y., died July 27, 1837, Decatur, Ill. 
Married Dec. 8, 1859, to Julia A. Green, born July 12, 
1837, and had Frederick Nelson Beach, died young; 
Georgiana Emily Beach, born May 8, 1865, in Watson; 
and Jessie A. Beach, born Dec. 3, 1866, in Watson, a 
school teacher in Brooklyn, N. Y., never married. 
Permanent address, Watson, N. Y. Georgiana Emily 
Beach married Sept. 19, 1893, to Jay Sterling Bowen, 
and they reside in Lowville, N. Y., with their three 
sons, Farnum J., George Byron and Richard Herkimer. 

571 JOSEPHINE BEACH, born July 8, 1834, in Wat¬ 
son, N. Y. 

572 MARY PORTER BEACH, born Feb. 12, 1837, in 
Watson, N. Y. 

HENRY HARRISON BEACH, died young. 

573 ANNA L. BEACH, born Sept. 9, 1842, in Watson. 
Married July 13, 1863, to Horace Lester Greene, born 
Oct. 13, 1838, and had Lillian Lester Greene, Jose¬ 
phine Anne Green, Nelson Beach Greene, all born In 
Little Falls, N. Y., and Carl H. Greene, born in Fort 
Plains, N. Y., where the family now reside. Mrs. 
Greene is a writer of some note, and two of her sons 
are artists. 

574 HENRIETTA BEACH, born March 2, 1845, in 
Watson, N. Y. 

LYDIA ANN BEACH, died young. 

575 EMILY PORTER BEACH, born June 21, 1851, 
Watson, N. Y. 

Nelson J. Beach was one of the engineers of 
the Erie Canal. Few details of his life are 
known. 


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SECTION X 

FAMILIES OF DAVID HUBBARD BEACH 
Fourth Son of 
JOSEPH DAYTON BEACH, 

Line of Thomas, Second Son of Azariah. 


Ill 

12 THOMAS BEACH, second son of Azariah, No. 4. 
Born Oct. 5, 1679, in Killing-worth, Conn. Died 1753, 
in New Haven. Married Feb. 19, 1702, Sarah Sanford, 
of Wallingford. Married second, Lydia, daughter of 
John and Lydia (Parker) Thomas, widow of Nathan¬ 
ael Parker. 


CHILDREN 

150 BENJAMIN BEACH, born, Jan. 29, 1704. See 
history. 

151 EPHRIAM BEACH, born June 1707, died young. 

152 SARAH BEACH, born 1708. 

153 JOHN BEACH, born Dec. 1713, removed to Gosh¬ 
en, where he had a family of three. 

154 MARY BEACH, born June, 1716. 

155 EPHRIAM BEACH, born 1719, died young. 

156 THOMAS BEACH, born July, 1721, died 1741. 

157 SAMUEL BEACH, born Aug. 1724, died 1742. 

The above family was reared at North Ha¬ 
ven, Conn. 


IV 


150 BENJAMIN BEACH, oldest son of Thomas, No. 
12. Born Jan. 29, 1703-4. Died April 25, 1788. Mar¬ 
ried July 31, 1736, Lydia Potter, daughter of Nathan¬ 
ael Potter. 


CHILDREN 

198 BENJAMIN BEACH, born April 15, 1737. See 
history. 

199 EPHRIAM BEACH, born Jan. 1, 1738-9. 

200 LYDIA BEACH, born Aug. 1740. 

201 NATHANAEL BEACH, twin of Elias, born Feb. 
14, 1741. Removed to Canaan, Vermont, where he 
had a family of three sons and three daughters. 

202 ELIAS BEACH, born Feb. 14, 1741, married and 
removed to Waterloo, N. Y., where he had a family 
of five sons and four daughters. 

656 PATIENCE BEACH, married Ephriam Ford of 
Armenia, N. Y. 


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657 MARTHA BEACH, married Ebenezer Blakeslee. 

658 SUSANNA BEACH, born 1748, married first 
Joseph Turner, second Judas J. Fitch. 

659 MABEL BEACH, born 1751, married Nathanael 
Stacey. 

660 CHLOE BEACH, born 1754, married Joseph 
Diggs, of Middletown, Conn. 

This family resided at Muddy Brook, Conn. 


V 

198 BENJAMIN BEACH, son of Benjamin, No. 150. 
Born April 17, 1737, died July 12, 1816, at Seymour, 
Conn. Married Mercy Blatchley, who died 1812. 


CHILDREN 

663 JOB BEACH, died young. 

664 GILES BEACH, born Jan. 13, 1765. See history. 

665 BENJAMIN BEACH, born 1767. 

666 TEMPERANCE BEACH, born 1770. 

672 JOEL BEACH, born 1770, married Abagail Ray. 
Their family of four daughters and one son, Riley 
Ray, who died in 1802, at Mount Pulaski, Ill. 

667 LYDIA BEACH. 

668 TITUS BEACH, born May 4, 1776, married twice 
and died at Clymer, N. Y. 

669 MERCY BEACH, born 1779, married Levi Blakes¬ 
lee. 

670 SIMEON BEACH, born Sept. 6, 1780, married 
Mary Benedict and died 1849. 

671 DAVID BEACH, married Patty Beecher and had 
a son, Benj. Bela Hubbard Beach, born in 1808. 

Benjamin Beach was the first settled min¬ 
ister at Seymour. Conn., 1789. 


VI 

664 GILES BEACH, second son of Benj. No. 198. 
Born Jan. 13, 1765. Died June 22, 1847. Married 
first May 3, 1789, Mary, daughter of Jonathan Dayton 
and Mary Yale. She died March 19, 1829. Married 
second Nov. 25, 1832, Janette Hannah Stillson, who 
after the death of Giles Beach married Seabury 
Jacobs.. 


CHILDREN 

673 BEDY BEACH, born April 1, 1790, married Sam¬ 
uel Hemmingway and died in 1889. 

674 ANCY BEACH, born 1792, died young. 

675 JOSEPH DAYTON BEACH, born Jan 8, 1794. 
See history. 

676 ORMELTA. BEACH, born 1795, died young. 

677 BENJAMIN BEACH, born Sept. 21, 1796, died 
1855. 

678 GILES BEACH, born Feb. 11, 1799, died young. 

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679 JONATHAN BEACH, born Feb. 11, 1799, died 
young. 

681 MARY BEACH, born Jan. 1, 1800. 

681 ABRAHAM BEACH, born Dec. 24, 1801, married 
Rhoda Dorothy and died 1832. 

682 ANCY BEACH, born June 1, 1805, married Geo 
Alvah Miner and died 1886. 

683 SHARON YALE BEACH, born May 21, 1809, 

married first Adeline Sperry of Orange. She died 
1812, married second Julia L. Hine. They had a son, 
George Wells, born Aug. 18, 1833, who had a eon, 
Henry Dayton, born Dec. 29, 1858, who had a son, 
Phillip Durphy, born Dec. 19, 1888, who was living 
about fifteen years ago at 133 Lafayette St., Bridge¬ 
port, Conn. 

Giles Beach was a young soldier in the Revo¬ 
lution in the Company of Capt. Jonathan Day- 
ton, whose daughter he married. The family 
resided at North Haven, Conn. 

VII 

675 JOSEPH DAYTON BEACH, son of Giles No. 664. 
Born Jan. 8, 1794, at North Haven, died Dec. 18, 1874, 
Sharon, Conn. Married Julia Curtis, daughter of 
David Curtis and Lois Chapman. 

CHILDREN 

710 CURTIS DAYTON BEACH, born Nov. 2, 1823. 
He never married. 

711 GEO. FRANKLIN BEACH, born May 17, 1826. 
He never married. Entered the Union army in the 
Civil War, was frightfully wounded and died in a 
Military Hospital in Illinois. 

712 LORENZO CURTIS BEACH, born June 24, 1828. 
He married and left one daughter, Harriet, who mar¬ 
ried, but died without children. 

713 DAVID HUBBARD BEACH, born April 19, 1833. 
See history. 

714 GILES A. BEACH, born Nov. 26, 1834, who 

never married. 

VIII 

713 DAVID HUBBARD BEACH, fourth son of Day- 
ton, No. 675. Born April 19, 1833, in Sharon, Conn. 
Died April 27, 1910, Midland City, Alabama. Married 
June 1, 1856, Orinda Janette Ticknor, daughter of 
Orin Ticknor and Janette Edwards. 

CHILDREN 

715 EDWARD S. BEACH, born May 19, 1857, see 
history. 

716 SHARON BEACH, born 1859. 

717 NELSON BEACH, born 1861. 

718 LILIAN A. BEACH, born 1865. 


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IX 


715 EDWARD S. BEACH, oldest son of David Hub¬ 
bard Beach, No. 713. Born May 19, 1857, New Brit¬ 
ain, Conn. Married first Katherine G. Hubbard, daughter 
of George Richard Dudley Hubbard of Hartford, Conn. 
She died 1903. Married second June 29, 1905 Molly 
Appleton Peabody at New York, daughter of Capt. 
Enoch W. Peabody and Cornelia Marshall. There 
were no children. Mr. Beach is a noted attorney 
with offices at 17 East 42nd St., Cor. Madison Ave., 
New York. He specializes in trade marks, patents 
and that class of work. Residence, Ridgeway, Conn. 


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The following blank pages for pen use are 
inserted to receive the data on new families 
started, or for bringing your line down to date 
from where the printed book leaves off, in case 
your full line is not given. Should this book 
ever become worthless to your people it may be 
forwarded to me, Elmer T. Beach, 634 Trimble 
Avenue, Kalamazoo. Michigan, at my expense. 


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CHAPTER IX 


A GUESS OR TWO 

Up to this point in this book I have scrupu¬ 
lously confined myself to proven fact. In this 
chapter I reserve the right to do a little guess¬ 
ing. Let the reader take note that it is guess¬ 
ing and be governed accordingly. The truth 
may be at variance to what I here set down. 
Guessing in matters of genealogy is always a 
hazardous thing, not so much for the person 
doing the guessing as for those who follow on 
and are thereby misled. 

In the course of my work a number of iso¬ 
lated, disconnected facts have come to my notice 
which seem to support the guesses I shall record 
and I wish to rehearse some of the more im¬ 
portant of those facts on which I rely. 

FACT I. Rebecca Donaldson Beach, in her trip 
through the counties of Wilts, Shropshire and Herts, 
England, about 1896, found record of numbers of 
Beaches, among them at St. Albans in Hertfordshire, 
only a few miles northwest of London, she found 
record of two brothers, John Beach, born 1590, and 
Richard Beach, born 1601, in St. Albans, Hertford¬ 
shire. She found no further record in England. His¬ 
tory of John Beach page 127. 

FACT II. The stock company headed by Rev. 
John Davenport and Samuel Eaton that settled New 
Haven, Conn., was made up in London, England, of 
about two hundred fifty families from London, and 
nearby towns and rural districts, including men from 
Hertfordshire. They sailed from London April, 1637, 
and arrived in Boston harbor, June 1637. They as¬ 
cended Charles River above Boston and disembarked 
in the vicinity of Watertown, and Cambridge, where 
the company remained all winter, looking up a loca¬ 
tion for planting their colony. Having sent men to 
investigate the old Indian fields at Quinnipiac, the 
present site of New Haven, and having had favorable 
reports, they chose that site, and on March 18, 1638, 
re-embarked at Boston and sailed around to the south 
side of Connecticut, where they arrived about April 
1, 1638. Our ancestor Richard Beach there appears 
for the first time as one of the stock holders of the 
company, a single man with twenty pounds sterling 
invested. 


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FACT III. For some as yet unexplained cause, 
Richard Beach was not present at the first meeting 
called in 1638 to determine their form of government 
and conditions of citizenship, at which time a com¬ 
pact was drawn up and signed. He was, however, 
present in the second meeting held June 4, 1639, for 
the purpose of ratifying the agreement, and then and 
there signed with six or seven others who, like him¬ 
self, had not signed. 

FACT IV. The New Haven colonial records show 
him as an active member of the community till 1648. 
He does not appear after that AS A RESIDENT OF 
NEW HAVEN. 

FACT V. Nothing is known of his whereabouts 
or doings from 1648 to 1660. That is a blank so far 
as facts are concerned. But in 1660 he came from 
somewhere with his family to Stratford the same year 
that his brother John came with his family from 
Wallingford, as one of the proprietors. Four years 
later, in 1664, Richard Beach was keeping a tavern 
in Stratford, and his oldest son, Benjamin, had mar¬ 
ried and settled in Stratford, and lived and died there. 
In 1665 Richard removed to the new town of Eliza¬ 
beth, N. J., with all of his family except Benjamin, 
and he resided in Elizabeth for twenty-three years. 
March 31, 1688, he sold all of his land in Elizabeth 
and disappeared. This is the last fact known of him. 

FACT VI. Just how Richard Beach came to join 
the company that settled New Haven is not known. 
He was about twenty-one. His brother John did not 
appear in New Haven till 1643, when he drifted in 
from somewhere and purchased the lot right beside 
that owned by Richard Beach in New Haven. Brother 
John lived in New Haven and Wallingford and Strat¬ 
ford all the rest of his life. Richard’s brother Thom¬ 
as did not appear in New Haven, till 1646, when he 
drifted in from somewhere. Brother Thomas lived in 
New Haven and Milford, four miles south, all his life, 

FACT VII. Bond’s History of Watertown, Mass., 
pp. 800-1000, says: 

RICHARD BEACH of Cambridge, 1635, Watertown, 
1639, New Haven, 1639. Died Oct. 24, 1674. First 
married wife, Mary. Two children, John, born Aug. 
6, 1639, in Watertown; Mary, born New Haven, July 
5, 1641. Second married Martha (widow of Andrew 
Hull). Five children: 

ISAAC, born July 5, 1646. 

MARTHA, born March 10, 1649, married Joseph 
Whitney, June 1674, her brother Isaac appointed 
guardian to her son Benjamin Whitney, Nov. 30, 1702. 

ABAGAIL, born June 4, 1653. 

JOSEPH, born Dec. 15, 1655. 

RICHARD, born Oct. 28, 1657. 

FACT VIII. Through the courtesy of Mr. W. G. 
Black, a civil engineer of Mandan, North Dakota, 
probably a descendant of Joseph Beach, brother of 
Captain Abel Beach, of Torrington, Conn., in whose 
possession the document now is, I had the pleasure 
of examining and reading an autographic letter ad- 

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dressed to one Stephen C. Read of Hartford, bearing 
date Aug. 12, year not given, but containing internal 
evidence which places the date of writing probably 
about the time of Samuel Norton, perhaps 1720 or 
1730. This old genealogist says: “RICHARD BEACH 
came from London in June, 1635. Captain Rogers in 
—name of vessel undecipherable but looks like AWK., 
moving to Cambridge the same year, then to Wyam, 
and in 1639 to New Haven, where he died Oct. 24, 
1674. Married 1638, Mary. Two children, John, born 
at Watertown, Aug. 6, 1639; Mary, at New Haven, 
Dec. 11, 1641. Second married, 1645, Martha (widow 
of Andrew Hull) and five children. 

ISAAC, born July 5, 1646. 

MARTHA, born March 10, 1649, married Joseph 
Whitney, June, 1674, her brother Isaac appointed 
guardian to her son Benjamin Whitney, Nov. 30, 
1702. 

ABAGAIL, born June 4, 1653. 

JOSEPH, born Dec. 15, 1655. 

RICHARD, born Oct. 28, 1657.” 

It seems evident that Bond’s History, and this old 
genealogist have their information from common 
sources. Both assume that Richard Beach of Cam¬ 
bridge and Watertown and Richard Beach of New 
Haven are the same, but alike, both ignore the four 
children of Richard Beach, born and of record in New 
Haven. One of them, Azariah, was born the same 
year as Isaac in Watertown, within a few weeks of 
each other. 

FACT IX. In the year 1860, a Mr. Savage publish¬ 
ed what he chose to call A Genealogical Dictionary of 
New England, in five large volumes, the evident in¬ 
tent being to give names, and genealogical data, of all 
early New England emigrants, and settlers. This has 
been recognized as authority, and copies may be found 
in all public libraries. On page 144, Savage says: 

RICHARD BEACH of Cambridge, soon after of 
Watertown, had (by wife Mary) John, born Aug. 6, 
1639, and Mary, born Dec. 11, 1641. Had by second 
wife, Martha, Isaac, born July 5, 1646, Martha B, 
born March 10, 1650; Abagail, born June 4, 1653; Jo¬ 
seph, born Dec. 15, 1655; Richard, born Oct. 28, 1657. 
He died Oct. 24, 1674. Martha married, Jan. 24, fol¬ 
lowing, Joseph Whitney. 

RICHARD BEACH, New Haven, 1639, one of the 
signers of the Original Compact, married, 1640, the 
widow of Andrew Hull and had, in her right there bap¬ 
tized, 1642, Mary, born June of that year; Benjamin, 
born Oct. 1644, Azariah, born July, 1646, and Mercy, 
born 1648—'all three baptized May 21 of that year. 
Removed to New London 1667. The book was pub¬ 
lished April 19, 1860, by Goodspeed Bookshop, 5 Park 
St., Boston, Mass. 

It will be seen Savage makes no sort of reference 
to any connection between the two, apparently not 
finding any evidence in Boston and Watertown of go¬ 
ing to New Haven, but evidently giving the facts of 
record in the two towns. The record of Richard of 


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New Haven is exactly in accordance with the known 
proved facts, except that Richard did not remove to 
New London, in 10G7. He went to Stamford, Conn., 
in that year, as a commissioner to meet the Indians 
on matters of the Colony, as Joseph P. Beach learns, 
but never lived in New London. 


MY CONCLUSIONS 

After considering all these, sometimes con¬ 
flicting reports, and other facts, I seem to see 
a relation and bearing. I may be wrong, I may 
be right, but my conclusion and guess is this. 

I guess that our ancestral family of Richard, 
John and Thomas Beach, brothers were the sons 
of John Beach, born in 1590, in St. Albans, 
Hertfordshire, England, and that Richard 
Beach, born in St. Albans, 1601, was their Uncle 
Richard. 1 think they all lived and grew up in 
St. Albans, till 1635. That was fifteen years 
after the May Flower had landed, and twenty- 
eight since the founding of Jamestown. Many 
young men of that time were coming to Ameri¬ 
ca as adventurers. In 1635, Father John Beach 
was 45 years of age, and our boys were lads*of 
nineteen, seventeen and thirteen. Their uncle 
Richard was a mature man of 34 years. Both 
John and Richard may have been married and 
had children in England; both John and Rich¬ 
ard may have come to America, but I guess 
not. My guess is that Uncle Richard Beach, a 
man of 34, probably unmarried, came to Ameri¬ 
ca as stated, in 1635, on the Awk, Captain Rog¬ 
ers. And that he brought with him, his nephew 
Richard Beach, a young man not quite of age. 
Being a minor no record of his coming would 
be likely to be made only as a minor. That one 
guess does not explain everything, but I guess 
there is one error in the Watertown records of 
Savage, which records all the Beaches born in 
Watertown of Richard Beach, as the children of 
Richard of Cambridge. Here is what I think 
actually happened. 

Uncle Richard Beach, the man, and Nephew 
Richard Beach the boy, came over to Water- 
town and Cambridge in 1635 and worked around 
Cambridge and Boston for two years. Then 
Uncle Richard Beach met and married Mary. 


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They had a son in 1639, and Richard named 
him for his brother John, just as brother John 
had already named his oldest son Richard. 
Then they had a daughter, and named her Mary, 
for her mother. Soon after mother Mary died, 
and Uncle Richard married second, Martha, as 
recorded. They had a son Isaac, born in 1646, 
just as recorded, who married, lived to the age 
of 90 and died but had no children, and willed 
his property to his apprentice. But I guess 
that Uncle Richard Beach had NO OTHER 
CHILDREN. Uncle Richard was at the birth of 
Isaac 45 years old. His wife Martha was perhaps 
about the same age. And I guess that the re¬ 
maining children credited to him, were in real¬ 
ity, the children of nephew Richard Beach, new¬ 
ly come from New Haven. These birth records 
would read much the same to an investigator 
two hundred years after. 

Nephew Richard Beach, who as a young man 
had come over with his Uncle Richard, worked 
around Boston for two years, probably chum¬ 
ming with his uncle. These two years brought 
him to manhood. And now it was 1637, and the 
company of Davenport and Eaton came to 
Watertowm directly from London, with men in 
the company from Hertfordshire. Richard 
Beach would be specially interested in that 
group of people. Two years aw T ay from home 
and kindred, would make a fellow feel pretty 
jolly to have a bunch of people happen along 
right from his own town. Besides, Uncle Rich¬ 
ard was about to be married. No doubt Rich¬ 
ard Beach spent much time with that company 
from London during the winter of 1637. What 
more natural than he should decide to join the 
company. And that is my guess, how he joined. 
When he learned that the company had decided 
to locate at Quinnipiac, a hundred miles beyond 
the outside fringe of outlying settlements 
around Boston, I think Richard looked up 
Davenport and Eaton, and joined, and paid in 
his twenty pounds before they sailed. But it 
probably took about all the money he had. A 
hundred dollars is a lot of money for a lad to 
get together in those days in two years. I do 
not think he had enough left to sail with the 


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rest. More likely, he went overland, and found 
his way through the timber by way of Hartford, 
the last settlement toward Quinnipiac, and that 
I think is the reason he was not present at the 
first meeting of the stockholders in 1638, and 
did not sign till June 4, 1639. From here on we 
do not need to guess. Andrew Hull, with a wife 
and two girls died. Richard married the young 
widow in 1640-41, just as my book states, and 
they had four children born in New Haven. But 
for some reason, Richard Beach disappears as a 
resident of New Haven in 1648. He was not in 
New Haven, but nobody knows where he was 
between 1648 and 1660. I guess again. 

New Haven, as a business proposition, did 
not pan out as expected. There is ample evi¬ 
dence in the history of New Haven showing 
much dissatisfaction. There were several at¬ 
tempts made to start a branch colony over near 
Manhattan around the mouth of the Hudson, 
but the Dutch gobbled them up or drove them 
out. And everybody became discouraged. Many 
including the Yales, who had not invested every¬ 
thing went back to London, and never returned. 
But the heavy stockholders, with all they had 
invested, had to stay and see it through. My 
guess is that Richard Beach shared in this gen¬ 
eral dissatisfaction. Besides he now had a 
growing family of four, beside his wife’s two 
daughters growing up in a mighty wild country. 
Back in Cambridge, and Watertown, were bet¬ 
ter schools, and better social opportunities. 
Richard had been a chum of his Uncle Richard, 
who now had a son, Isaac, born the same year 
as Richard’s son Azariali. All these consider¬ 
ations I think, coupled with the bad financial 
returns in New Haven, induced Richard to move 
back to Watertown with his family. So I guess 
he got tilings together, took his three unbaptized 
children over after the birth of Mercy in 1648, 
and had them all baptized in New Haven May 
21, 1648, as we know he did, and then took 
transfer cards for them all, for a person had to 
be a member of the church in those days to 
amount to anything, and returned to Water- 
town, where I guess he resided till 1660. 
Two years after the birth of Mercy, Martha was 


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born, named for her aunt Martha; and three 
years after that, Abagail was born, and two 
years after that Joseph was born, and two 
years more Richard was born in 1657, making 
the family of Richard of New Haven eight in 
all. The first four born in New Haven, and the 
second four in Watertown and thus matters 
stood in 1660, oldest son Benjamin being then 
16 years of age, and the rest running along 
down. 

Since Richard left New Haven, his brother 
John had married in 1650, and settled in Wal¬ 
lingford, where he had a family of four. And 
his brother Thomas had also married, in 1653, 
and was living in Milford, four miles from New 
Haven, with a growing family. New Haven had 
then been settled twenty-one years, and settle¬ 
ments had extended west from Boston, till that 
was not the wild country it had been. And 
now came news that the new town of Stratford 
was to be settled, and that brother John was 
one of the proprietors there. It is perfectly 
natural, and understandable to think that Rich¬ 
ard on receiving this news, should decide to 
move over to Stratford, in the same town with 
his brother John, and six miles away from his 
brother Thomas. Be that as it may, it is a 
fact that Richard did come from some where in 
1660, to Stratford, bringing his whole family 
with him, and his brother John did move over 
to Stratford from Wallingford with his family. 
During the next four years, son Benjamin mar¬ 
ried and settled in Stratford, and lived and 
died there. In 1664 Richard Beach was keep¬ 
ing a tavern in Stratford, and we know what 
he was doing till he sold his land in Elizabeth, 
N. J., on March 31, 1688. He was then a mim 
of approximately seventy years old. Back in 
Stratford his son Benjamin was living with a 
big family of grand children. And six miles 
from Stratford, in New Haven, his second son, 
Azariah, was living with a big family of grand 
children, and my guess is that after he cut loose 
at Elizabeth, he returned to the vicinity of New 
Haven and died there, his uncle, Richard Beach, 
having previously died in New Haven, as re¬ 
corded in 1674. 


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I am drawing on toward sixty myself. I 
may never find myself with the spare time and 
spare funds to investigate the truth of what I 
have set down. Under the circumstances I feel 
I may be pardoned for guessing, but I feel con¬ 
fident that investigation some time will disclose 
that I am pretty close to the truth in the guesses 
above. I thank you all sincerely, for assistance 
rendered.—Good Bye. 

ELMER T. BEACH. 

G34 Trimble Avenue. 



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INDEX OF KNOWN MALE DESCENDANTS 
OF RICHARD BEACH, PLANTER 

Fath- 
Year er’s 

Number Born No. 

4 Azariah Beach .1646 1 

28 Azariah Beach .1743 17 

33 Apollos Beach .1778 28 

54 Alvah Owen Beach .1868 51 

159 Abel Beach .1712 13 

162 Augustus Beach .1797 29 

203 Azariah Beach .1750 153 

223 Amaza 2d Beach .1823 160 

241 Albert McLean Beach .1841 173 

262 Alfred Newhall Beach . 223 

264 Alpheus Crosby Beach . 223 

429 Ahira Beach .1784 425 

442 Anan Beach .1787 217 

542 Albert Lawrence Beach . 241 

17 Azariah Beach .1705 11 

29 Azariah Beach .1770 28 

40 Apollos Wright Beach .1807 33 

252 Alfred Walter Beach .1869 181 

160 Amaza Beach .1793 29 

192 Apollos Beach .1839 45 

211 Abel Beach .1740 159 

231 Albert W. Beach .1844 106 

245 Arthur Bond Beach .1847 176 

263 Augustus T. Beach . 223 

326 Augustus Beach . 323 

433 Abel Beach . 1775 215 

400 Abel Beach .1745 22 

592 Andrew J. Beach .1842 545 

239 Alexander Beach .1848 167 

681 Abraham Beach .1801 664 

3 Benjamin Beach .1644 1 

22 Benjamin Beach .1720 11 

99 Brownington Maxwell Beach .1911 104 

150 Benjamin Beach .1704 12 

209 Benjamin Beach .1740 158 

13 Benjamin Beach .1082 4 

31 Benjamin Beach .1774 28 

149 Benjamin Beach .1683 3 

198 Benjamin Beach .1737 150 

427 Benjamin Beach .1775 209 

524 Ben L. Beach .1893 237 

652 Benjamin Beach . ^ 149 

665 Benjamin Beach .1767 198 

677 Benjamin Beach .1796 664 

690 Benjamin Bela H. Beach .1808 671 

37 Chauncey Beach .1786 28 

166 Charles Beach .1807 35 

189 Charles Beach .1852 44 

248 Carl M. Beach .I860 176 

300 Chauncey Beach .1880 189 


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Fath- 
Year er’s 

Number Born No. 

337 Charles Burr Beach .1871 333 

477 Cleveland Harvey Buell Beach .1884 268 

173 Chauncey Elihu Beach .1809 37 

227 Charles H. Beach .1834 166 

256 Charles Adams Beach .1884 181 

115 Charles W. Beach.1860 227 

196 Charles Elwin Beach .1855 45 

710 Curtis D. Beach .1823 675 

705 Cyrus Beach .1792 202 

639 Cornelius Francis (Emmett) Beach..1837 169 

58 David Orval Beach .1882 51 

305 David Lester Beach .1873 192 

392- Daniel Beach .1744 18 

713 David Hubbard Beach .1833 713 

45 David M. Beach .1817 33 

194 David Martin Beach .1844 45 

465 Dan Beach .1779 t 27 

671 David Beach . 198* 

32 Elijah Beach .1776 28 

155 Ephriam Beach .1719 12- 

178 Edw. Lyman Beach .1821 37 

199 Ephriam Beach .1739 150 — 

220 Elijah Beach ....1817 160 

254 Edw. Bamforth Beach .1874 181 

272 Ezra Beach .1766 209 

342 Edw. James Beach, Jr.1915 336 

376 Edw. Latimer Beach .1918 373 

27 Elisha Beach .1739 17 

53 Elmer Taylor Beach .1866 51 

163 Elijah Beach .1803 29 

196 Elwin Chauncey Beach .1855 45 

202 Elias Beach .1741 150 

235 Edward C. Beach .1847 167 

265 Elisha Beach, Jr.1765 27 

336 Edward James Beach .1866 333 

715 Edward S. Beach .1857 713 

373 Edw. L. Beach .1867 232 

501 Edw. Latimer Beach .1894 372 

646 Edwin Beach .1863 592 

700 Elias Beach .1777 202 

428 Elah Beach .1780 425 

102 Fred Ell Brooks Beach .1867 49 

236 Frank M. Beach .1850 167 

327 Frederick Beach . 323 

276 Frederick Robert Beach .1901 254 

69 Gerald Hall Beach .1917 56 

176 George Houlton Beach .1817 37 

230 George M. Beach .1842 265 

266 George R. Beach .1799 265 

335 George Wilson Beach .1861 333 

476 George Howard Beach .1856 267 

547 George Beach .1799 433 

593 George Wellington Beach .1844 545 

49 George J. Beach .1838 42 

100 George Francis Beach .1864 49 

221 George W. Beach .1819 160 

246 George Houlton Beach .1852 176 

267 George Day Beach ..1831 266 

339 George Lawrence Beach .1893 335 

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Fath- 
Year er’s 

Number Born No. 

711 Geo. F. Beach .1826 675 

544 George Nelson Beach .1825 470 

714 Giles A. Beach .1834 675 

570 George Byron Beach .1832 467 

664 Giles Beach .1765 198 

678 Giles Beach .1799 664 

697 Gilbert Beach . 202 

708 George Beach .1820 703 

59 Hugh Elbert Beach .1907 53 

111 Harold West Beach .1893 100 

251 Howard Wright Beach .1867 181 

269 Henry Harrison A. Beach .1843 220 

430 Horace Beach .1786 425 

457 Henry L. Beach .;.1839 404 

606 Harry M. Beach .1889 604 

56 Harry Romane Beach .1873 51 

60 Harold Elmer Beach .1909 53 

126 Howard S. J. Beach .1897 102 

268 Hubert Cleveland Beach .1859 267 

278 Howard Alfred Beach .1904 259 

478 Hubert Buell Beach .1886 268 

603 Henry M. Beach .1862 544 

143 Harry Eugene Beach .1914 124 

696 Herman Beach .1782 201 

405 Irving E. Beach .1871 332 

35 Joseph Beach .1782 28 

51 Josiah Hall Beach .1843 42 

153 John Beach .1713 12 

167 Joseph S'. Beach .1810 35 

215 John Beach .1750 159 

232 Joseph E. Beach .1842 167 

279 Justus Sackett Beach .1920 254 

340 James Wilson Beach .1910 336 

377 John Blair Beach .1919 373 

435 James Beach .1780 215 

440 Julius Beach .1783 217 

462 John Beach .1773 27 

393 Jedediah Beach .1747 18 

499 John Lee Beach .1890 372 

504 John Hartwell Beach . 499 

518 Jesse Lane Beach .1896 239 

567 John Sidney Beach .1804 462 

595 John L. Beach .1850 545 

18 John Beach .1707 11 

42 Josiah Hall Beach .1810 33 

62 Jerome Josiah Beach .1913 53 

158 Joseph Beach .1710 13 

181 Jeremiah Osgood Beach .1841 40 

216 James Beach .1752 159 

259 Joseph Marshall Beach . 1852 223 

333 James Beach .1835 324 

372 John H. Beach .1865 232 

425 Joseph Beach .1753 158 

436 John Beach .1783 215 

454 John Eaton Beach .1831 404 

388 John Beach .1737 18 

498 Joseph Lane Beach .1888 372 

503 John Benzig Beach .1922 498 

505 Joseph Cagwin Beach . 499 


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Fath- 
Year er’s 

Number Born No. 

522 Jesse L. Beach .1889 237 

588 John Beach .1825 470 

661 John Beach .1689 4 

663 Job Beach . 198 

672 Joel Beach .1770 198 

675 Joseph Dayton Beach .1794 664 

679 Jonathan Beach .1799 664 

703 John Beach .1787 202 

706 John Nelson Beach .1814 703 

707 Julius Vespasien Beach .1817 703 

621 James Beach .1845 470 

274 Levi Beach .1772 209- 

332 Lurandus Beach .1832 324 

404 Lewis Beach .1797 265 

712 Lorenzo C. Beach .1828 675 

609 Lyle K. Beach .1903 604 

64 Leo Cargill Beach .1920 53 

324 Lurandus Beach .1803 323 

457 Lewis Henry Beach .1839 404 

605 Louis E. Beach .1878 544 

403 Marah Beach .1755 22 

25 Medad Beach .1735 17 

702 Moses Beach .1784 202 

458 Myron E. Beach . 404 

201 Nathanael Beach ....1741 150 

717 Nelson Beach .1861 717 

467 Nelson J. Beach .1800 462 

70 Norman LeRoy Beach .1921 56 

217 Noah Beach .1755 159 

695 Nathanael Beach .1779 201 

548 Orlando Beach .1802 433 

16 Paul Eugene Beach .1912 53 

684 Riley Ray Beach .1802 672 

1 Richard Beach, Planter . 

57 Roy Eugene Beach .1875 51 

229 Rollin G. Beach .1840 166 

470 Ralph Beach .1794 265 

545 Ralph Beach .1818 470 

11 Richard Beach .1677 4 

193 Reuben Beach .1850 45 

318 R. Willey Beach .1883 259 

401 Richard Beach .1747 22 

670 Simeon Beach .1780 198 

683 Sharon Yale Beach .1809 664 

693 Samuel Beach .1773 201 

699 Stephen Beach . 202 

65 Stanley Eugene Beach .1905 58 

212 Samuel Beach .1742 159 

402 Sariah Beach .1749 22 

36 Salomon Beach .1784 28 

157 Samuel Beach .1724 12 

323 Samuel Beach .1781 212 

513 Samuel Beach . 323 

655 Timothy Beach . 149 

668 Titus Beach .1776 198 

691 Thomas Beach .1768 201 

12 Thomas Beach .1679 4 

172 Thomas Beach .1821 35 

156 Thomas Beach .1721 12 


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Fath- 
Year er’s 

Number Born No. 

277 Theodore Erward Beach .1902 254 

39 Wiliam R. Beach .1793 28 

104 Walter Maxwell Beach .1877 49 

108 William Beach .1812 35 

234 William J. Beach .1845 167 

260 William Woodbury Beach . 223 

519 William A. Beach .1884 237 

44 William Chauncey Beach .1814 33 

124 Wesley E. Beach . 1892 102 

190 William Edward Beach . 44 

237 William G. L. Beach .1853 167 

270 William Niles Beach .1848 220 

607 Wellington J. Beach .1893 604 


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QUOTATIONS FROM THE OLD NEW 
HAVEN COLONY RECORD 


June, 1639. “The 4th day of the 4th moneth called 
June 1639’’ thus Thomas Fugill, the clerk, writes, 
“all the free planters assembled together in a general 
meetinge to consult about settling Ciuill Governmt 
according to God ...” 

This meeting it is said was held in a large barn 
belonging to Robert Newman, between what is now 
Elm and Grove streets, New Haven. The meeting 
was in charge of Rev. John Davenport, and after care¬ 
fully explaining what they were doing, the business 
to be done having been 

“propounded in diverse quaeres” was dispatched in 
regular order. 

Everybody agreed to quaery one which was wheth¬ 
er 

“the Scripturs doe holde a perfect rule for the di- 
directio and gouernmt of all men in all duet (ies) 
wch they are to performe to God and men, as well in 
gouernmt of famylyes and comonwealths as in mat¬ 
ters of Chur” 

And so they voted 

“that church members only shall be free burgesses, 
and that they onely shall chuse magistrates & offi¬ 
cers among themselves to have the power of trans¬ 
acting all the public ciuil affayres of this Plantio, of 
makeing and repealing lawes, devideing of inherit, 
ances—decideing of differences thatt may arise—and 
doeing all things or businesses of like nature.” Not 
one vote being cast against it. 

Richard Beach came in first at the second quaery 

“John Clarke being abesent when the couent (cove¬ 
nant) w(as) made, doth now manifest his consent to 
itt, allso Richard Beach Andrew Low Goodman Ban¬ 
nister Ar(thur) Halbridge John Potter Robt Hill John 
Brockett and John Johnson—these persons being not 
(ad)mitted planters when the couent was made, doth 
now express their consent to itt,” and they all signed. 

***** 

April 1610. “At a Court holden the 3d of April 
1640—It is ordered that John Mosse, Timothy Forde 
and Richard Beach shall pay each of them Is fine 
for trees which they did fall disorderly.” 

***** 

November 1640. Richard Beach was a witness in 
a lawsuit against Arthur Halbridge for false measure 
in lime, brought by Edward Adams, and supported 
by his testimony. 

“wch when he had donne Arthur Halbidg excepted 
against itt, thinking to prove the said Edward Adams 


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pjured pson. Butt Goodman Pigge, Rich; Beach and 
John Wakefield affirmed the truth of what Edward 
Adams had testified (though the said Arthur Hol- 
bidg did conceive they would have contradicted Edw 
Adams his testimony), Itt was therefore ordered that 
the said Arthur should pay two folde for all the want 
of measure that is charged vpo him, and from hence- 
forthe take noe work by the great, nor burne any 
lime to sell.” 

***** 

August 1642. ‘‘A court held the 5th Day of the 

6th Moneth—-1642 Richard Beach for nott perfor’ing 
covenant in the worke he undertooke to doe att 
the mill, wch he was to doe strongly and substan¬ 
tially, butt did itt weakely and sleightly as was 
proved by the testimony of John Wakefield the miller, 
hmselfe allso nott denyinge itt; Itt was ordered that 
he should make good the damage butt because the 
damage is not justly known what itt is, Mr. Good¬ 
year, and Mr. Gregson are to ve (view) the worke. 
and consider off and sett downe the damage by his 
(defect) ive workmanship” and so on. 

***** 

Feb. 8th, 1643. Page 124. ‘‘Richard Beach hath 
engaged his house and lott to secure a former agree¬ 
ment in reference to the children of Andrew Hull.” 

***** 

June 1643. John and Richard Beach fined ‘‘2 shil¬ 
lings for twice late coming” and another 2 shillings 
for ‘‘defect’ gun” 

***** 

June 1643. ‘‘Joh. Beach having killed a cow of 
George Smyths wth the falling of a tree, the said 
George required satisfactio, forasmuch as he con- 
ceiveth thatt the said John Beach alleadged for him- 
selfe, thatt he did nott doe itt negligently, for he 
being falling a tree, there came some cowes about 
him, and the tree in falling did rest upon the bowes 
of another tree thatt stoode neare, and then he left 
the tree, and drave away the cowes as he did con¬ 
ceive without the reache of the tree, and in the 
meane time some goates coming- vnder the tree, he 
returned to drive them away allso, and then come in 
haste to give 3 or 4 chops att the tree to hasten the 
falling of itt before the cattell could come againe. 
Butt itt was testifyed by brother Andrews and 
brother Thompson (who were entreated to view the 
cow and the place,) thatt he had nott done whatt in 
reason he might and ought to have done to p’serve 
the cattell,” etc., “vpon all of wch testimony i(t) was 
ordered thatt the said John Beach shall make good 
the damage to the vallue of 5 £ wch price George 
Smyth sett vpon his cow wth much moderatio, though 
she was really worth more.” 

* * * * * 

July 1, 1644. Richard and John Beach take oath 
of fidelity before Gov. Eaton. 

***** 


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October 1645. “Michael Palmer complayned that 
Richard Beach did promise to pay him a debt of 35s 
in Beaver but fayled. Richard Beach acknowledged 
the debt & his promise to pay beaver, but professed he 
could not get beaver. 

The court ordered that Richard Beach should pay 
the debt in some other paye so as it maye equal 
beaver, to the said Palmer’s satisfaction (with dam¬ 
ages of forbearance) before the next Courte, or elce 
an execution shall goe forth agaynst him.” 

***** 

November 1645. Page 178, part of Testimoney in 
suit against Francis Linley. “Richard Beach affirmed 
that Francis offered him that gun to sell & demanded 
20S' telling him to his best remembrance thatt it had 
a new britch.” 

***** 

February 1646. Page 294. “Richard Beach inform¬ 
ed the court that his cozn William lies had done some 
work for Mr. Mullyner, and several times he had de¬ 
sired to have had it issued but he hindered it, and 
now lately refussing to make payment for what was 
don, he had him warned to the court to answere it. 
Mr Mullyner told Richard Beach if he would prove the 
bargaine and pformance of it he would paye. * * here 
followings several pages of testimony, at the con¬ 
clusion of which “The centenc of the court was that 
Mr. Mullyner pay 55s vnto John England and Richard 
Beach (and that he pay 5s) besids the charges vnto 
them, Jno England finishing it.” 

***** 

March 1646. “William lies his inventory was pre¬ 
sented to the Court, where vpon the Govnr propound¬ 
ed that Rich Beach give in securyty to the content of 
the court, or els pay into the treasurer’s hands the 
vallew of the inventory.” here follows the invetory, 
and several pages of arrangements for looking up the 
security offered. 

***** 

1616. “Richard Beach hath sould his owne howse to 
bro: Wm Peeke, & whereas the said howse was sug- 
aged for the securitie of the portions of the children 
of Andrew Hull (whose Widow he marryed) in liew 
thereof he hath now ingaged his howse, barne, cel¬ 
lar & well, vallewed at 40L wth the 7 acres of land 
on wch It stands, the howse, barne & cellar being 
compleatly finished being built with bricke and stonne 
as he promiseth and so kept in repalre & the land in 
Hart for securitye of the portions of said children.” 

***** 

Jail. 4, 1647. Page 356. “Mr. Pell, Mrs. Lambert- 
son, Frances Hall, John Thompson, Mathias Hitch- 
coclte, Richard Beech, being all duly warned season¬ 
ably, made no appearance, thoughe the court satt a 
good space of time. The Court gave order that they 
should be warned to the nexte court to answer for this 
negligence.” 

***** 

Februarue 1647. “Richard Beach dissiered of the 
courte that he might retayne the estate of Wm lies 


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in his hand till further order, wch is as appeares by 
the mventorie 13 L 17s, the Courte tould hime vpon 
secure tie he mighte; he offered himselfe and 9L 
worthe of Land, as it was valewed by Anthony 
Thompson & John Clarke as appeares in a note vnder 
their hands. . The land is 22 acrs of vpland in the 
second devission, and 5 acres of meddowe in the west 
Meddowe, and 2 acrs of vpland in the quarter at his 
house, and for the other 5L John Beech declareth 
m Courte, wch the Courte accepted, with this pro- 
\iso, that if John Beech, should dye or leave the 
towne, Richard Beech put in other securitye to the 
Courts satisfaction.” 


May 4, 1647. Page 307. ‘‘An entry of 5 acr J4, 12 
rods of land lyeing on the west side abutting east¬ 
ward vpon a highway by the west meddow, westward 
vpon the second divizion of Land on the west side, 
allyenated from Richard Beech to Anthony Thomp¬ 
son. 

***** 


May 4, 1647 ‘‘Richard Beach propounded to the 
court for helpe, Mr. Mullyner not paying to hm what 
the Court ordered hm to pay for his cozn Wm lies. 
The Court propounded that hee would stay till an¬ 
other court, wch he inclyned to doe.” 

‘‘Further whereas Anthony Thompson & John 
Clarke were to view some land of Rich Beeches for 
securytye of Wm. lies estate they thinke the land is 
not securytye. Therefore the Court gave him till next 
court to provide sufficient securytye or els pay it vnto 
the Treasurer.” 

***** 


December 1617. Page 345. ‘‘Richard Beech dissier- 
ed of the Courte that he might, till further order, re¬ 
tain in his hands the estate of William lies, deceased; 
but he being not fitted to give sufficient securetie, it 
was respited till another courte.” 

***** 

1647. Thomas Beach twice fined for defective gun. 

***** 

Jan. 31, 1648. ‘‘Richard Beach desired a small pec 
of meddow in a cove on ye west side nexte his owne, 
but it was said in ye courte that it is alloted out all 
readie.” Page 427. 

***** 

1648. ‘‘John Moss passeth ouer to Richard Beach 1 
acr I quarter & 14 rod of meddowe lying in the West 
Meddowe, one end abutting on the West River, the 
other running into a cove in the vpland, betwixt the 
meddowe of Richard Beach and James Russell.” 

This is the last appearnce of Richard Beach as a 
resident of New Haven. The above quotations taken 
from the History of New Haven. 

Quotations from New Haven Colony Record as pub¬ 
lished by the State Library, Hartford, April 14, 1857, 
Volumes I and II loaned me from his private* library 
in Kalamazoo, by Mr. A. M. Todd (famous in the 
field of peppermint and essential oils) himself a 
lineal descendant of Christopher Todd also a signer 
of the fundamental compact of New Haven Conony. 


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